Goff, David, 1804?-1878
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Edmiston Jr. (1892-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1994
Overview
Correspondence, deeds, financial and military records, newspaper clippings, and photographs of a Democratic politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1933-1942, newspaper editor, and businessman from Weston, Lewis County. Subjects covered include the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the coal and glass industries. Correspondents include David Goff, Charles E. Hodges, Charles Lively, Alfred E. Smith, Harold L. Ickes, Joe L. Smith, Jennings Randolph, Clarence W. Meadows, James...
Dates:
1916-1948
Jacob Williamson Marshall (b.1830) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0054
Overview
Papers of a livestock broker, farmer, and merchant of Mingo Flats, Randolph County, who was associated with John T. McGraw in the development of Marlinton and the purchase and sale of land, coal, and timber in neighboring Pocahontas County. There are some items of Civil War interest, while the bulk of the correspondence relates to the marketing of ginseng, beeswax, wool, venison, animal pelts, and farm machinery. There is significant correspondence relating to state politics and railroads....
Dates:
ca. 1840-1900
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- Subject: Coal mining. X
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- Agriculture 1
- American ginseng 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Fur trade 1
- Glass manufacture 1
- Grafton (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Livestock 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Marlinton (W. Va.) 1
- Mingo Flats. 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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