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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], David Goff Papers, A&amp;M 0975, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Papers of David Goff (ca. 1804-1878) of Beverly, West Virginia, an attorney and land promoter for Harrison, Randolph, and Tucker Counties. Goff became prosecuting attorney in 1835, served as a Colonel in the Virginia militia in 1844, was superintendent of Randolph County schools in 1853, served as a member of the Virginia Assembly, and was a West Virginia State Senator from Randolph County (1875-1877). Includes letters, surveys, land grant, bonds, and receipts. The correspondence includes ALS (autograph letters signed) from Caleb Boggess, Samuel Price, Joseph Sprigg, John S. Carlile, J. M. Bennett, Thos. S. Haymond, J. H. Diss Debar, P. G. Van Winkle, Alex. H. H. Stuart, Adjutant General R. S. Garnett, A. I. Boreman, Geo. W. Munford, John J. Jacob, Charles J. Faulkner, and Henry M. Matthews. Subjects of correspondence include politics, state and national; Civil War; Randolph county schools; land; West Virginia constitutional convention of 1872; Washington and Ohio Railroad; establishment of mail routes; estates; and Goff family history.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Politics and government.</subject>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82067445" source="lcsh">Randolph County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="local_LC">Education -- West Virginia</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">West Virginia - Constitutional Convention of 1872.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Railroads - Washington and Ohio Railroad.</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Bennett, J.M.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008118793" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896</persname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss.</persname>
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    <persname source="ingest">Goff, David, 1804?-1878</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Jacob, John Jeremiah.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008109435" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Mathews, Henry M. (Henry Mason), 1834-1884</persname>
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