East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Lorio, Lionel March 27, 1890 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

Marvin C. Goff, who maintains his residence and official headquarters in the 
City of Baton Rouge and who is here the division chief in the United States 
internal-revenue service, was born at Saltillo, Hardin County, Tennessee, March 
27, 1890, the Goff family having long been one of prominence and influence in 
that county.  Louis Goff, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, passed 
virtually his entire life in Decatur County, and was there a substantial 
exponent of farm industry, besides having been prominent in the civic affairs 
of his community.  His wife, whose family name was Kelly, likewise was born in 
Decatur County, and there her death occurred when she was well advanced in 
years.  Their son, Joseph W., who was born at the family homestead near 
Saltillo, January 26, 1847, has there continued his residence during the long 
intervening years, has been an extensive and successful agriculturist and stock-
grower and is now living virtually retired at Saltillo, as one of the venerable 
and honored native sons of Hardin County. He has there been influential in the 
councils of the republican party, has served as road commissioner and was for 
many years a member of the school board.  He was a Union soldier during the 
last two years of the Civil war, as a member of an Illinois infantry regiment, 
and he now maintains affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.  He has 
long been an active member of the Christian Church, as was also: his wife, 
whose maiden name was Dorcas Barber and who passed her entire life in 
Tennessee, where she was born in 1857 and where her death occurred in 1898.  
The first born of the children was a daughter, Emma, who died at the age of 
twenty-one years:  Olie E. is a successful farmer near Scottshill, Tennessee;  
Ida resides at Saint Louis, Mo.;  Raymond L. is engaged in business as a 
carpenter and builder in Tennessee:  Loran W. is engaged in the automobile 
business at Saltillo, that state;  D. Alton is a progressive farmer near 
Scottshill, Tennessee;  Marvin C., of this sketch, was the next in order of 
birth;  Nora is the wife of Ivy Ricketts, and they reside in Tennessee; and  
Nelle is the wife of Raymond Smith, a cabinetmaker, their home likewise being 
in Tennessee.

After receiving the discipline of the public schools of Saltillo Marvin C. Goff 
became a student in the high school at Sardis, Tennessee, and after leaving 
this school he entered Bowling Green Business University, at Bowling Green, 
Kentucky.  In this excellent institution he was graduated as a member of the 
class of 1910, and in the same year he came to Talisheek, Louisiana, and 
assumed the position of stenographer and assistant bookkeeper in the office of 
the Ozone Lumber Company.  He was thus engaged eighteen months, and then became 
chief clerk of the Long-Bell Lumber Company at Woodworth.  Two and one-half 
years later he. made another advance step by assuming the position of general 
cashier and accountant for the Forest Lumber Company at Oakdale, this state.  
He retired from this position two years later to become president and manager 
of the Goff Motors Company, in the organization of which he was associated and 
which he became president at the time of its incorporation.  He continued as 
the active executive head of this Oakdale concern until 1921, when he accepted 
the position of deputy collector of internal revenue, with headquarters at Lake 
Charles.  There he continued his effective service in this capacity until his 
removal to Baton Rouge on the 1st, of August, 1923, where he has since held the 
responsible office of division chief in the internal-revenue service.  He has 
supervision of the Baton Rouge division, which comprises thirty-one of the 
sixty-four parishes in Louisiana, and in the capital city his office are in the 
Federal, or Post Office, Building.  He a director in Oakdale Chamber of 
Commerce Wall in business there, and is now a member of Baton Rouge Chamber of 
Commerce.

Mr. Goff has never deviated from the line of loyal allegiance to the republican 
party, and while residing at Oakdale he served as notary public under 
appointment by Gov. John M. Parker.  He and his wife hold membership in the 
Christ Church, and record of his Masonic affiliations here indicated: Yellow 
Pine Lodge No. 282, And Free and Accepted Masons, and Oakdale Chapter No. 71, 
Royal Arch Masons, both at Oakdale, state; Trinity Commandery No. 8, Knights 
Templars, at Alexandria; and El Karubah Temple of the mystic Shrine, in the 
City of Shreveport.  In the World war period Mr. Goff, then residing at 
Oakdale, was the parish publicity manager of all of the drives in support of 
the government war loans in Allen Parish, and found other and many mediums for 
patriotic service.

October 21, 1913, recorded the marriage of Mr. Goff and Miss Ethel Masten, 
daughter of the late Horace G~ and Alice (Stone) Masten, of Lake Charles, this 
state, Mr. Masten having been a substantial lumber manufacturer in that section 
of Louisiana.  Mr. and Mrs. Goff have two children:  Marvin C., Jr., born March 
23, 1916, and Vivian Ione, born July 28, 1918.

Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 102-103, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published 
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.


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