Elihu Bernard Goodsell (May 11, 1806 – November 17, 1878) was an American farmer, miner, and politician.
Born in
Sheldon, Vermont
Sheldon is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,136 at the 2020 census. It contains the unincorporated community of Sheldon Springs.
Geography
Sheldon, named for Revolutionary War colonel Elisha Sheldon, , he went to
Quincy, Illinois, and then to
Mineral Point,
Michigan Territory in 1834.
[ ] He was the first settler of
Highland, Wisconsin
Highland is a village in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 842 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. The village is located within the Town of Highland.
Geography
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and helped found the community in 1845.
He was the postmaster and had farming and mining businesses. Goodsell served in the first Wisconsin Constitution Convention of 1846 as a
Democrat
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. He then served in the
Wisconsin State Assembly
The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
Representatives are elected for two-year terms, ...
in 1865 and 1866. Goodsell died in Highland, Wisconsin, in 1878.
[''The Convention of 1846'', Milo Milton Qualife, Wisconsin Historical Society: 1919, Biographical Sketch of Elihu Bernard Goodsell, p. 773.]
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1806 births
1878 deaths
People from Franklin County, Vermont
People from Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
Farmers from Wisconsin
Wisconsin postmasters
American city founders
19th-century American politicians
People from Iowa County, Wisconsin
Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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