Individual Details

Census

Listed as 4 years old

Census

Authur is 13 years old not going to school as his brothers. He is also working on the farm.

Residence

Had moved to Tyrone to go into business with his brother's at their store.

Marriage

A. O. Goheen age 28, Tyrone; Mary Emma Gray 25 year, State College.
Parents: J.J. and Sarah Goheen; George W. F. and Harriet Gray
Occupation of man; clerk
Married by A.W Guyer minister at State College, Pennsylvania.

Residence

Returned to father's farm after beacoming ill.

Death

According to death records Author age 29, married, born in Rock Spring, Occupation Clerk, died 4 Jun 1896, Cause of death was Suicide, buried in Graysville Cemetery.
Arthur O. Goheen Obituary, Democratic Watchman, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 5 Jun 1896, transcribed by Elizabeth L. Albright from the original newspaper on May 17, 1999, at Centre County Library and Historical Museum, Bellefonte, Centre, Pennsylvania.

Took His Own Life - Driven to melancholia by sickness Arthur O. Goheen ended the miserable existence in which he has suffered by shooting himself at his childhood's home near Rock Spring's, at noon, on Thursday.
Until last fall he was the personification of all that was healthful and happy, having been married but a short time to a lovable woman and with a prosperous business career before him everything conjured to a promising life until he was seized with pneumonia. The disease so shattered his former robust health that he despaired of ever being better. Finally a change was advised and they moved from Tyrone to his father's at Rock Springs, where they have been for some months.
Thursday afternoon, shortly after one o'clock, while resting on the lounge, he said to his wife, who was sitting near him, "Mary, I am killing you and my old father by inches." Just then Mrs Goheen was called from the room and scarcely had she gone 'til a shot was heard and the sound of some one falling. He has gone upstairs, found a revolver belonging to a farm hand in a trunk, hunted up a cartridge, loaded the weapon and shot himself through the head, the ball entering just above the right ear and lodging back of his left eye. His father was the first to reach his side and he was fully conscious until 4 o'clock, when death ended his suffering.
The youngest son of John J. Goheen, he was aged 29 years, 3 months and 28 days. Born at Rock Springs he staid there until eight years ago when he went to Tyrone to clerk in his brothers', J.C. and J.M. Goheen's store. On the 20th of June last he was married to Miss Mary Gray, a daughter of the late Geo. L. Gray, of Filmore, who was then residing at State College, and then a little daughter was born less than three weeks ago.
Also surviving him are his aged father J. J. Goheen; four sisters, Mrs Frank Gardner, Mrs. W.E. McWilliams, Misses Belle and Barbara, and five brothers, J. M. and J.C. of Tyrone, Robert, Harry and Rev. Milliken, just home from India. His funeral, Sunday afternoon, was one of the largest ever seen in the valley, for he had many friends, in Tyrone, Half Moon valley, State College and Spruce Creek. His pastor and friend Rev Ermintrout, assisted by Revs, Kelly & Gayer, conducted the services. Interment was made at Graysville