Career
Born in Sheldon, Vermont, he went to Quincy, Illinois and then to Mineral Point, Michigan Territory. He was the first settler of Highland, Wisconsin and helped founded the community in 1845. He was the postmaster and had farming and mining businesses.
Goodsell served in the first Wisconsin Constitution of 1846 as a Democrat.
He then served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1865 and 1866. Goodsell died in Highland, Wisconsin in 1880.
