Individual Details

Census

Charles Gohee age 50, Cooper, born Pennsylvania
Mary age 38, born Ohio
Sarah age 16 born Illinois
Joe age 14 born Illinois
Willie age 3 born Illinois
Lydia Allen age 24 male? born Illinois [ actually the daughter by the first marriage. widow of Fletcher Allen]

Census

Mary Goheen age 51, housekeeping, born Ohio and parents born Ohio
Willie age 13 born Illinois is a newsboy, father born New Jersey and mother born Ohio

Death

Birth: Jul. 25, 1866, Moweaqua, Shelby County, Illinois, USA
Death: Jun. 27, 1919, Kansas, USA

The Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas
Monday, June 30, 1919, Page 5

Dexter Editor Dead
Len Goheen, Died at Age 53 After Months of Illness.

Len Goheen, editor of the Dexter Observer, died Saturday at the age of 53. He was a veteran newspaper man and spent much of his career as a press agent. He was devoted to his family. He was born in 1866. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Betty and Josephine and son, Billy. His mother and sister reside in St. Louis. His daughter Josephine lives in Emporia.
Mr. Goheen went to Dexter last October and took over the Observer after it had been discontinued for several months.
He had a wide experience as publisher. 

Miscellaneous

William L. Goheen had a public school education at Whitehall and Shelbyville, Illinois. He left school in 1884 and completed the junior year in the Shelbyville High School. On leaving school he became identified with the circus business and had followed that intermittently ever since as a press agent. He served as press agent for the John Robinson’s circus, the Wallace shows, the Walter L. Main Shows, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and many other organizations that had their day of popularity and favor.
Mr. Goheen acquired his first knowledge of the printing trade at the age of nine years. He had worked as a journeyman printer in Oklahoma, Wyoming and Texas. His first location in Kansas was in Bourbon County at Garland in 1905. He edited the Garland Graphie from December of that year until March 22, 1906, at which time he left to spend the summer on the road for a circus. After that he published for a short time the Redfork Derrick in the great oil district of Oklahoma at Redfork. January 1, 1906, Mr. Goheen bought the Capitol News at Okmulgee, Oklahoma, selling out after eighteen months and again taking up circus work. For six months he was connected with the Ingersoll News at Ingersoll, Oklahoma, and in 1908 established the Delaware Register at Delaware, Oklahoma, a paper he conducted until 1911. During 1911 he both bought and sold the Tyro Telegram.
For his next newspaper venture he came to Holyrood and bought the Holyrood Banner, which he had edited and published. He also established the Galatia Register in Barton County and is editor of that journal. The Banner is an independent paper in politics, circulating in Ellsworth and surrounding counties, and was established in 1900 by Doctor O’Donnell. The Galatia Register is also independent in politics.
Mr. Goheen is a democrat. While living at Okmulgee and Delaware, Oklahoma, he filled the office of city clerk. He is affiliated with the lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose and is a member of the International Typographical Union.
He also had some military experience in his career. In May, 1908, he enlisted in the Second Nebraska Infantry, and was assigned to Red Cross duty, He was with the regiment in the camps at Chattanooga, Chickamauga and Tampa, and was mustered out of service at Chattanooga in October, 1900.
In 1904, at Clinton, Missouri, Mr. Goheen married Miss Irene Cosine. She was born and reared at Emporia, Kansas, and died at Nowata, Oklahoma, in 1912. She was the mother of one daughter, Josephine, born June 6, 1909. Mr. Goheen’s present wife was Ethel Merle Lewis, daughter of Robert W. and Mary (Williams) Lewis. Her mother lives with Mr. and Mrs. Goheen, and her father, an oil inspector, is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Goheen have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born February 8, 1910.