This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goff, Plummer, Alley, Rowe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5MZ.2ACEB/1095 Message Board Post: >From "History of Cumberland County Maine - 1880" - Higginson, pg. 286*, "Elias S. Goff was born in the town of Gray, June 26, 1811. He is fifth son in a family of eight children of William and Anna Goff. His father was a native of Cumberland County, and was descended from a Revolutionary soldier who died on the field of battle at Monmouth, N.J. His father being engaged in agricultural pursuits, Elias Goff's boyhood was spent on the farm and in attending school. He learned the trade of a wheelwright, and engaged in building mills until 1856, when he commenced lumbering in the town of Standish. He continued in business there for sevcen years, and was engaged in the same business for one year in New Hampshire. He settled in Gorham in 1867, and the same year, in partnership with Hugh M. Plummer (Goff & Plummer), engaged in lumbering and cooperage, and in general trade. This firm carries on a large business, and employs some forty men. Mr. Goff has ever been deeply interested in local and State politics, and is a staunch member of the Republican party. In the fall of 1879 he was elected to the State Legislature, after a closely contested canvass, by a majority of only twenty. He married, June 3, 1841, Abbie B., daughter of Ebenezer and Betsey (Alley) Rowe. She is a native of Mercer, Somerset Co., Me., and was born Oct. 12, 1813. They have an adopted daughter, Annie L. Goff."