William Goforth

(1766-1817)

LBT ID: WiGofor1817	B/BAP: 1766 DIED: 1817-05-12
SOURCES: ANB
American physician of Cincinnati, Ohio; he assembled a collection of mammoth bones for Thomas Jefferson that was appropriated by the literary forger Thomas Ashe.
REFERENCES TO William Goforth: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 16