Clay County, West Virginia Biography of ALEXANDER H. GOAD This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 572 ALEXANDER H. GOAD. Fitted by genius as well as by ex- perience for the business of merchandising, Alexander H, Goad has handled successful enterprises in several localities, and for the past six years has been an active figure in the grocery and real estate business at Charleston. Mr. Goad was born and reared in Clay County, West Virginia, and his parents were natives of the same county. His grandfather, Alexander H. Goad, Sr., came from old Virginia to Clay County in 1851. He served as high sheriff of that county, and is one of the best known citizens there. He died at the age of eighty-eight. Jeremiah Goad, father of the Charleston merchant, spent many years as a timber man, getting out logs for lumber companies, and he is now living retired there. He married Mary Walker, who died in 1894. Alexander H. Goad for one year was a merchant in the coal mining town of Cooper's Creek in Kanawha County, and then conducted a store at Pinch, an oil town. Suc- cess attended both of these propositions, but in 1916 he moved to a larger field in Charleston, and in six years time has built up a flourishing business as a grocery merchant at 1422 Crescent Road. This is a business demanding five employes. He has also handled real estate, both on a com- mission basis and for himself. He began dealing in realty as a young man. He is a member of the Charleston Real Estate Board. In 1900 he married Miss Donna Procious, of Clay County. They have two children, Arthur Herman, attend- ing the Lincoln High School, and Mary Josephine, born in 1917. Mr. Goad is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Moose, and the Junior Order United American Mechanics.