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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Guy D. Goff Papers, A&M 0622, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and two volumes of typed copies of correspondence written by Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920).

Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things.

One scrapbook concerns labor violence in 1911-1912, including the bombings of iron and steel plants in Milwaukee and other Wisconsin cities and trial of accused persons in which Goff served as counsel for the prosecution. The other scrapbook concerns the appointment of Guy D. Goff to U.S. District Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1912.

Correspondence includes one collection and one bound volume of letters written during Goff's time as a colonel in the American Expeditionary Forces (1 3/4 inches, 1918-1920). Topics include Goff's work in the military, his travels in France and Germany, and his observations on the political, economic, and social conditions in post-World War I Europe. Please note, the bound volume of letters is identical to the volume in A&M 17.

The collection of letters written during Goff's time as a colonel in the American Expeditionary Forces (3/4 inch, 1918-1920) includes recipient information, and duplicates some of the content and much of the subject matter of the bound volume of letters. Letters in the bound volume (1 inch, 1919-1920) were written by Goff from Europe while he was a member of General Pershing's legal staff, and they do not include recipient information. They concern Goff's work in the military, his travels in France and Germany, and his observations on the political, economic, and social conditions in post-World War I Europe. He also discusses the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and international relations. Please note, this bound volume of letters is identical to the volume in A&M 17.

Related Material

17, 622

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Goff, Guy Despard, 1867-1933
• Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Milwaukee (Wis.)
• Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
• Unions.
• World War, 1914-1918