PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  Goss, Alfred R. (1885)

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Bios:  Frazier, Gano, Giddings, Goss, Grenamyer - Portage County, Ohio, from
"History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago,
1885

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ALFRED R. GOSS, merchant, Edinburg, born in Fall River, Mass., August 30,
1834, son of Daniel and Margaret Goss, the former a native of New Hampshire,
the latter of Scotland.  They were married at Fall River, Mass., and moved
to Catskill, N.Y., in 1837, thence to Cincinnati in 1845, where they
remained for eleven years, then moved to Edinburg, where the mother died in
1877; the father died in Philadelphia, in 1873.  Our subject was married,
October 17, 1860, to Martha C. Carr, born in Edinburg, Ohio, November 26,
1837, daughter of Thomas and Orpha Carr, natives of Pennsylvania, who
settled in Edinburg about 1834, and remained until their death.  The former
died in 1857, the latter August 31, 1883.  To Mr. and Mrs. Goss have been
born four children:  Thomas C., born April 22, 1862; Charles A., born
December 10, 1863; Maggie F., born September 9, 1866; and Hattie, born
November 21, 1871.  Our subject is a hatter by trade, and has also been
engaged in farming, but has been for twenty-two years merchandising in
Edinburg, Ohio, under the firm name of Goss Bros.  Mrs. Goss is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.