Raymond Allen Good was born at St. Johns, Michigan in 1904. In 1908 his family moved to the province of Alberta to homestead and remained there until 1925, when they moved to Hancock, Michigan. During this time, Good completed his education through 11th grade and taught in a number of schools. He completed his high school education in Hancock and graduated from Northern Michigan Normal School in 1930 and received a master's degree in history from the University of Michigan in 1937. In the mid-1940s he became a professor of geography, American history, Michigan history, and European economic history at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Good retired in 1969 after 24 years of service to the University. He received several awards for his Copper Country bibliography, a comprehensive bibliography of virtually everything ever published about the four-county Copper Country region. Raymond Allen Good passed away in 1980. (excerpted from memorial service program, Portage Lake United Church, April 22, 1980).