David C. Shapiro Memorial Law Library Donors & Gifts: Goble Collection

George Washington Goble was born in Elk County, Kansas December 21, 1887 to Samuel Harper (8) Goble and Nannie E. Fisher. He moved east to Ohio (College Corner) when he was 4 or 5 years old by covered wagon. After college he taught high school in Alton, Indiana, where Roberta Lee Sonner was one of his pupils. George and Roberta married August 20, 1913 in Indianapolis, Indiana. After law school he practiced in Connersville, Indiana from 1915-1919. He was a professor of Law at the University of Kentucky from 1919-1921, and served in the same capacity at the University of Illinois from 1921 through 1956 when he was named Professor Emeritus. During his career he served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell, Columbia and twice at Yale.

by Evelyn Goble Steen (in the Goble Family Newsletter, v.9 no. 1)