Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) Goodsell

Born in 1840 and remembered as Daniel Ayres Goodsell, he was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop as well as an author. Library and reference records connect his name with religious writing, pastoral reflection, and historical narrative, and public-domain book listings show that his work was still being circulated well after its first publication.

Goodsell wrote in several modes rather than just one. Surviving catalogs and author records link him to Peter the Hermit, Nature and Character at Granite Bay, and The Things Which Remain, suggesting a body of work that moved between storytelling, moral reflection, and addresses aimed at Christian readers and ministers.

He died in 1909. Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, the record that does remain presents him as a church leader whose writing grew naturally out of his ministry and public religious life.