A.J. Gouffe
- Occupation
- tailor
- Origin
- France
- Sources
- Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Boyer, Sandell, Cordillot
Positions
- Unionist; petitioner for federal troops at Dallas, Union side — 1865 – 1868 (informal) [cordillot]
- County Treasurer, Dallas County — 1867-11 (appointed) [sandell IV; kagay]
- City Treasurer, City of Dallas — 1868-09 (appointed) [sandell IV; kagay n76]
From the register of positions.
Land
- 1866-07-25: S.H. Cockrell → A.J. Gouffre (8 ac, )
- 1867 register: lot 1, block 5 N1/2 — A.J. Gouffe
- 1867 register: lot 8, block 32 — A.J. Gouffe
- 1867 register: lot H2, block 32 — A.J. Gouffe
- 1867 register: lot 2, block 7 1/2 — A.J. Gouffe
Biography
A.J. Gouffe
Name
Canonical: A.J. Gouffe
French: Antoine Joseph Gouffé
Also: Gouffre, Goffe (Sandell); "Antonine Joseph Goffe" (Foster); "A. J.
Jouffes" (Boyer); "Gouffre" in Savardan's index, once mistaken for the
word "abyss"
Birth: France; about 1836 (24 in the 1860 census)
Death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Origin: France; a tailor (Santerre, Sandell, the 1860 census)
Family
Wife: Nathalie Gouffe nee Zoie (Cordillot's appendix)
Occupation at colony: tailor
Occupation in Dallas: tailor; then office. Sandell: "prominent citizen,
active in city government."
Colony role: none recorded
Post-colony
- 1858: among the eight stockholding colonists who took receivership
land at $4 an acre (Santerre XI; Sandell II)
- July 1860: his tailor shop survived the Dallas fire -- one of the two
colonist businesses named on the burned-district's edge (Sandell III)
- 1860 census: "J. Gouffe, 24, tailor," a household of one at Palace
Hill (family 744)
- A Unionist: with Ben Long signed the petition asking that federal
troops be stationed at Dallas to protect "Unionists and freed Blacks"
(Cordillot, Long notice)
- November 1867: appointed County Treasurer under the Reconstruction
Acts -- the first colonist in office (Sandell IV; Kagay)
- June 4, 1868: signed the Trinity-navigation memorial
- September 1868: City Treasurer on Gen. Reynolds's slate with Long,
the Barbiers and Boll (Brown 1892; Sandell IV; Kagay n. 76)
Land
July 25, 1866: S. H. Cockrell to A. J. Gouffre, 8 acres (Vol. J, p. 300).
1867 town register: four Gouffe lots.
Sources
Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list; ch. XI
Sandell, assimilation thesis (1986), directory; ch. III-IV
Lewis, Memorial and Biographical History (1892), pp. 228, 238, 278
Cordillot, Au Texas (2003), Long notice and appendix
deeds.py: 1866-07-25; 1867 town register
1860 census, frame 121 line 6
Notes
A twenty-four-year-old tailor in 1860, county treasurer at thirty-one:
the Unionist colonists were the men Reconstruction could appoint, and
Gouffe was the first of them. Where he went after 1872 is unknown.