Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Blakeslee White (1856-1941) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0110
Scope and Contents
Business, political, and official correspondence of the eleventh governor, 1901-1905, of West Virginia. Owner and editor of the State Journal, Parkersburg, 1881-1899, White was associated with many banking and manufacturing enterprises, and was tax commissioner of West Virginia in 1907 and 1908, collector of internal revenues in 1889, 1897, and 1921, and a Republican member of the legislature in 1926. Among the correspondents are G.W. Atkinson, Waitman T. Barbe,...
Dates:
1888-1929
Harry C. Woodyard (1867-1929) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2458
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal, and financial, and miscellaneous papers of a businessman and politician from Roane County, West Virginia, who was elected to the state Senate in 1898 and to the U.S. Congress as a Republican for several terms: 1902-11, 1916-23, 1925-27. His early business activity was in wholesale groceries and the lumber industry. He later engaged in newspaper publishing and owned an estimated eighteen weekly papers. Woodyard's sons continued in their father's business after his...
Dates:
ca. 1910-1929
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