There were four Gore brothers who came to America. The source of this story is a letter dated 21 March 1925 from Dr. Charles S. Goar to his cousin Fossie Goar Cooper which says:

There were four brothers of the Gores. One going to Mass. one to Conn. or Vt., and from this branch, I think, Howard M. Gore, Gov. of W. Va., comes. One settled in Va., that portion which afterwards became W. Va. From this branch we originated. The fourth brother went west, which is now Ky., and then went into N. or S. Carolina. Then into Ala., and there the ex senator from Okla., Thomas Gore derives his origin. The late James K. Gore who was Adj. Gen'l of Ind. from 1897 to 1901, I knew and talked with him. He was the from the Yankee family of Vt. or Conn. He has the same history of the Gores, the four brothers as I had it.

There was in fact a John Gore who settled 1635 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. However, he had no brothers who settled anywhere else during his lifetime as alleged by Dr. Goar. The Gores in Connecticut and Vermont are descendants of the John of Roxbury. Howard Mason Gore's ancestry lies in an old Virginia Quaker family. The first Gores to set foot in what is now West Virginia were the children of Ann Catherine (Keller) Gore when she brought them there in 1792. Every early Gore found in Kentucky (which was previously a county of Virginia) had his origin in Virginia, the Carolinas, or some other eastern state. The four brothers story sounds like so many others that I have heard, "Once upon a time there were........."

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