11 Facts About William Goforth

William Goforth was one of the earliest immigrants to the Cincinnati area, where he was named a judge and was elected to the territorial legislature.

William Goforth was a member of the Committee of Safety and Committee of One Hundred early in the American Revolutionary War.

William Goforth served in the Invasion of Canada and the Battle of Three Rivers.

William Goforth was among the earliest settlers in Southwest Ohio, when he settled at Columbia, now a neighborhood of Cincinnati, in the Northwest Territory in early 1789.

William Goforth was elected one of the Hamilton County representatives in the Northwest Territory House of Representatives for the First Territorial Legislature, which met from September 16 to December 19,1799, at Cincinnati, and from November 3 to December 9,1800, at Chillicothe.

In 1802, William Goforth ran as a Democratic-Republican to be a delegate to the convention that would draft a constitution for the proposed state of Ohio.

William Goforth was elected to the convention, which met from November 1 to November 29,1802.

William Goforth voted against ever allowing slavery in the state, and was in the minority in voting for suffrage and other civil rights for black people.

Either Goforth, or his son, William was a Presidential elector in 1804, voting for Thomas Jefferson.

William Goforth was buried there, but re-interred at Spring Grove Cemetery.

William Goforth died Nov 2, AD 1807 in the 76th year of his age.