E. C. Goff letters, [1852?-1898].

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E. C. Goff letters, [1852?-1898].

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Twenty-nine letters from E. C. Goff to his brother John,accompanied by two letters from John to E. C., and four other letters from others. In the twenty-three letters from California, E. C. Goff writes of his ventures in a joint stock company, private partnerships, missing home, the misperception of easy money to be had in California, and gives instructions on the care of his children and the repurchase of his farm. There are five more letters from E. C. after his return to John in Kansas, concerning farm life. Two letters from John to E. C. are written en route to the Colorado gold mines in 1859, and there is one letter from E. C. to John writing of his intention to join him in Colorado. One letter, dated June 6, 1865, is written by William H. to his sister describing his work as a nurse in a hospital in Washington, D.C. Another letter, from D. B. Judet & Co. is written to "friend Goff" from Fort Goff, Siskiyou Co., Cal June 13, 1860 describes mining life there after Goff's departure.

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Goff, John F.

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Judet, D. B.

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Goff, William Harry, 1925-

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Goff, E. C. (Ebenezer C.)

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E. C. Goff sold his farm in Little Prairie Ronde, Michigan in order to go to California during the gold rush, where he worked on Pools Bar on the South Yuba River and American Hill, both near Nevada City, and on the Klamath River near Happy Camp. In 1856 or 1857 he returned home, and in 1859 he visited Colorado during the gold rush there. Goff was married to Amelia and had two children: William H. and Martha. Goff's brother, John F., had been in California with E. C. and had left before the end ...