. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Henry Goff was born in the town of Howard, Jan. 8, 1816. His father, "William Goflf, was a native of Bennington, Yt., born in 1781; went to Otsego County while a young man, and married Harriet Hamilton, of the town of Butternuts, and began farming. Of this union were born in that county. Job; Mrs. Zimri Burnham (deceased); Mrs. Nathan Goflf (deceased); Jehial D. (deceased); Potter D. H., a p
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Henry Goff was born in the town of Howard, Jan. 8, 1816. His father, "William Goflf, was a native of Bennington, Yt., born in 1781; went to Otsego County while a young man, and married Harriet Hamilton, of the town of Butternuts, and began farming. Of this union were born in that county. Job; Mrs. Zimri Burnham (deceased); Mrs. Nathan Goflf (deceased); Jehial D. (deceased); Potter D. H., a practicing physician of Wis- consin. The family settled in the town of Howard, this county, about 1810, when Mr. Goff first purchased some two hundred acres of land on Goff's Creek, making additions thereto sub- sequently of several hundred acres. On his land was a saw- mill, and on which he built a grist-mill, the first built in that section of the county, and erected a wool-carding and cloth- dressing mill; and in 1833 he built the brick house now stand- ing in that part of the town, making the brick by hand. He lived where he first settled until he had erected the third grist- mill on different sites on the same farm. He also built a distillery which he carried on for some twelve years, and was engaged in stone-cutting. At one time when there was a scarcity of provisions, Mr. Goff brought flour from Penn Yan, paying twenty dollars per barrel, and distributed it among the needy; and during the famine, in 1816, it is said that Mrs. Goff spent a large part of one winter sifting bran, taking the finer part and mixing with fiour to supply the destitute; and at a time when there was no physician near she was the ever ready physician and midwife for the settlers; such was her generosity and kindness, that her name will long be honored for her many womanly virtues. He was an enterprising, thrifty business man; his sympathy for those around him was only limited by his ability to help
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