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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], David Goff Papers, A&amp;M 0627, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Letters to 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). These sixteen letters cover topics including land in Randolph and Tucker counties, politics, the Civil War and the founding of the <emph render="italic">Conservative</emph> at Clarksburg. Correspondents include Charles Marshall, Baltimore, Maryland; Benjamin H. Shackelford, Warrenton, Virginia; G. D. Camden; L. D. Monall; W. P. Johnson, Richmond, Virginia; W. P. Cooper, Clarksburg; W.L. Jackson, Louisville, Kentucky; Robert Johnston, Richmond; and Emmet O'Brien.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79096746" source="lcsh">Tucker County (W. Va.)</geogname>
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    <subject source="ingest">Lawyers - letters and papers.</subject>
    <title source="ingest">Clarksburg Conservative</title>
    <persname source="ingest">Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Goff, David, 1804?-1878</persname>
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