Identifier: historyofkentuck03john (find matches)
Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f of the subject and his wife,these being in order of birth: Eliza, John,Levi. William, and Thomas. Mr. Goff was reared upon the farm, re-ceived his early education in the commonschools, and supplemented this mental disci-pline with two years attendance in HolbrookInstitute at Lebanon, Ohio. He remainedwith his father until 1891, in which year heremoved to Alontgomery county, Kentucky,and there for six years he operated rentedlands. In 1897 he removed to Bourboncounty. Kentucky, where he purchased a farmof two hundred and fifteen acres. After iden-tifying himself for a dozen years with theagricultural interests of that part of the BlueGrass state, in the spring of 1909, he sold outand purchased one hundred and eighty-fiveacres of the old estate upon which he hadpassed the happy days of his youth. Herehe engages in general farming, tobacco andcattle raising. He is a successful and enter-prising citizen, as well as a self-made man, no .iiMUMMM* rii nyf rotK pDBUC UBRART; AfT»R, ltH9K \
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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS 1357 helping hand having given impetus to hisyouthful endeavors. He and his wife assistwith their sympathy and support the afifairsof the Christian church and he is devoted tothe cause of the Democratic party. JouETT Family.—Among the familieswhich have been prominent in the history ofKentucky, and previously of Virginia, is thatof the Jouetts. They are of French Huguenotextraction, having come over in 1686 and set-tled in New Jersey; but the immediate foun-der of the Kentucky branch was John Jouett,of Charlottesville, Virginia, who was thefriend of Mr. Jefferson and an officer of theContinental Army in the Revolutionary war.He was particularly distinguished for his fa-mous ride from Louisa Court House to Char-lottesville, where he arrived barely in time tosave Jefferson, then the governor, and the leg-islature, which was in session at that place,from capture by the British under the noto-rious Tarleton. For this service he was pre-sented by the L

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