Charles Frederic Goss

Born in Meridian, New York, in 1852, he became an American clergyman and author whose writing moved between religion, fiction, and local history. He is most often remembered for The Redemption of David Corson, a novel that was widely read around 1900.

Alongside his work as a minister, he published books with a thoughtful, moral tone and later took part in editing and writing volumes on the history of Cincinnati. That mix of pastoral experience and literary ambition gives his work a distinctive voice: sincere, reflective, and closely tied to the concerns of his time.

He died in 1930, but his books remain accessible today through public-domain and library collections, where readers can still discover a writer who brought spiritual themes to a broad popular audience.