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Goff, Isaac Lewis – Gooch, Frank Austin
Goff, Isaac Lewis
banker, capitalist, was born Aug. 29, 1852, in Taunton, Mass. He was instrumental in establishing the Home Investment company of Providence, R. I. He is president of the People's Trust company, and director of various banking and business corporations.
Goforth, John
lawyer, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1873 he was appointed an attorney-general of the United States.
Goggin, William L
lawyer, congressman, was born May 31, 1807, in Bedford county, Va. He practiced in several of the circuit and district courts of the state; in 1836 was a member of the legislature, and in 1837 declined a re-election. In 1839 he was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, and was re-elected in 1841, 1843, and 1847. In 1859 he was nominated as the whig candidate for governor of Virginia. He died Jan. 5, 1870, in Richmond, Va.
Going, Jonathan
college president, founder, was born March 7, 1786, in Reading, Vt. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Theological seminary of Newton, Mass. He died in November, 1844.
Goldthwaite, George
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 10, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He was on the bench of the circuit court, and afterward of the supreme court, of which he was chief justice for some years. He was adjutant-general of Alabama during the war. He was elected to the United States senate in 1870 for the term ending in 1877. He died March 18, 1879, in Montgomery, Ala.
Goldthwaite, Henry
journalist, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in 1798, in Boston, Mass. He edited a newspaper, and served in the Alabama state legislature several terms.
From 1839 until his death he was a judge of the supreme court of Alabama. He died in 1847, in Mobile, Ala.
Goldzier, Julius
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1854, in Austria. In 1890 he became a member of the city council of Chicago, and served until the end of his term in 1892. He was elected as a democrat to the fifty-third congress.
Golladay, Edward I
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1831, in Lebanon, Tenn.
He graduated at Cumberland university; taught school; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. He was elected to the state legislature in 1857; and was a presidential elector in 1860.
He served in the confederate army as colonel, and participated in several important engagements. He was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Golladay, Jacob S
state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1819, in Lebanon, Tenn. He was a member of the legislature of that state from Logan county in 1850, 1851, and 1853; and state senator from 1853 to 1855. In 1867 he was elected a representative in congress to fill He resigned in 1870; and a vacancy. was also elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy.
Gooch, Daniel W
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1820, in Wells, Maine. In 1852 he was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts; in 1853 to the constitutional convention of the state, and subsequently a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from Massachusetts, for an unexpired term. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, and thirty-ninth congresses; and was again elected to the forty-third congress.
Gooch, Fanny Chambers
author, was born Dec. 9, 1847, in Hinds county, Miss. She is the author of Face to Face with the Mexicans; and other works.
Gooch, Frank Austin
educator, chemist, author, was born May 2, 1852, in Watertown, Mass. From 1881 till 1884 he was chief chemist of the northern transcontinental survey, and from 1884 till 1886 assistant chemist to the United States geological survey in Washington.
In 1886 he was appointed professor of chemistry in Yale.