This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goff, Terrill, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/1868.1 Message Board Post: I have a database of Indiana photographers and have the following about Frank L. Goff, photographer in Elkhart from 1877 through at least 1895. I'd appreciate receiving any other information about him or other Indiana photographers. Thanks-- Joan Hostetler Indiana Photographers Project heritagephoto@indy.rr.com Pictorial & Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart & St. Jos. Cos (Chicago, Goodspeed Bros. 1893), p. 157: In 1877 Frank L. Goff came to Elkhart & purchased a photograph gallery of Daniel W. Smith and has conducted a successful business ever since. He has occupied his present quarters since Dec. 1881. Listed as photographer in Elkhart in these directories: 1879-80 Williams & Co. Indiana State Directory, p. 369 1880-81 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1027 1880 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., p. 497d 1882-83 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1086 1884-85 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1063 1887-88 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1330 1890 Polk's Indiana Gazetteer, p. 1206 (Frank L. Goff) 1895-96 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 985 The Blue Book for Amateur Photographers American Edition, 1895, p. 240, T. L. Goff [sic] At 115 Main Street, Ground Floor Studio (from carte de visite photo dated 1879: Frank L. Goff Photographic Art Parlors) 217 Main Street (from 1890s cabinet card) Biographical information: b. April 2, 1845 in Coldwater Michigan. PARENTS: Dorset J. & Julia (Terrill) Goff EDUCATION: educated in Coldwater & at Hillsdale, Mi; he studied music and the art of photography in Burr Oak, MI between the time of his father's death and 1877 when he moved to Elkhart OTHER: Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Jos. Cos (Chicago, Goodspeed Bros., 1893) p. 156-57 Reared in Coldwater, MI, 1863 removed to Buffalo, NY where he was employed in the wholesale hardware business of Sidney Shepherd & Co (5 yrs) two subsequent yrs. with the Western Insurance Co., of Buffalo. At the end of this time the death of his father called him to Burr Oak, where he remained for some time studying music and the art of photography. In 1877 came to Elkhart where he bought photography gallery. 1880 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart Co., p. 497d Frank L. Goff, photographer, single, 33, MI