George grew up hunting and fishing with the Indians around Coral. He was said to have been an expert at throwing a tomahawk, equalizing the fact his brothers were much larger than he was. Rather than become a lumber sawyer as his brothers were, George went into the printing business. He graduated from Albion College in 1912 and married Erma Reed, daughter of David E. Reed, a Methodist circuit preacher. David E. Reed was a partner of George Bennard, author of "The Old Rugged Cross." George served as a deputy Michigan State Prison warden and wrote an article for the Encyclopedia Britannica about prison reform. He founded and published the Lancaster Daily News paper in Lancaster, Ohio, started creative incentive programs to boost circulation in various papers, and was an executive with the Jackson Daily News. He retired in Long Beach, CA.

Contributed by Carole Dick -
From George Goeff --- My Grandfather George was born in Albion, Michigan. He was Deputy Warden of the Michigan State Prison and later became a newspaper owner in Lancaster, Ohio. He started prison farming in Michigan and invented the rural route boxes (now tubes) for the delivery of newspapers to rural homes.