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...called Ohio Gang originated with Ohio's "Big Four" politicians: Mark Hamia, J. B. Foraker, George B. Cox, Charles Dick. Later additions were Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, Warren G. Harding, Howard Mannington, Charles R. Forbes, Jesse Smith, E. Mont Reily, Daniel Richard Crissinger, George Busby Christian...
...Stillwater, Mass., the Last Man's Club was holding its last dinner. There were really three Last Men-Peter Hall, 89; Charles Lockwood, 86; John Goff, 85. Sixty-six years ago they had marched off to the Civil War with Company B of the First Minnesota Regiment. Many soldiers of Company B fell at their first battle-Bull Run-many at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at other battles that are history to almost everyone today but are memories to the old men of the Last Man's Club. In 1886 there were only 34 Company B members surviving...
...other Senators, less daring, merely stopped off at Shanghai. They were Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, Montana Democrat, en route to the U. S. from the Philippines, and Senator Guy Despard Goff, West Virginia Republican, en route to the Philippines from...
Four years ago, for the first time, I met Colonel Guy Goff, now United States Senator from West Virginia, It was on a train, and we spent some time together. The talk turned to reading, and from my bag I produced a copy of TIME, then little known. On leaving the train I left the copy with Colonel Goff and commended it to his interest. Meeting him again a. year ago, for the first time since our introduction, he immediately recalled me, "because, he said, I had brought to his attention a publication which had consistently retained his interest...
West Virginia--Guv Despard Goff. LL.B...