Jonas Platt Goodsell

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Jonas Platt Goodsell (1819 Utica, Oneida County, New York - November 22, 1869 Durhamville, Oneida County, New York) was an American civil engineer and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1866 to 1867.

Life

He was the son of Dr. Thomas Goodsell (1775-1864) and Susan (Livingston) Goodsell (ca. 1797-1864). He was educated at the Utica Academy.

He began work on the survey for the enlargement of the Erie Canal in 1840, and continued there until 1842. Then he removed to Mobile, Alabama, to improve his health, and staid there until 1844. On November 27, 1845, he married Lavinia Maria Smith at Durhamville.

he was appointed Second Assistant Engineer of the State Canals in 1846, and from 1850 to 1853 was Resident Engineer at Albany, New York. From 1853 to 1856, he was Chief Engineer of the Cape Fear and Deep River Railroad in North Carolina. From 1856 to 1860, he was Division Engineer of the Eastern Division, and from 1862 to 1866 of the Middle Division of the New York State Canals. In 1863 and 1864, he was Supervisor of the Town of Utica. He was State Engineer and Surveyor from 1866 to 1867, elected in 1865 on the Republican ticket, defeating Democrat Sylvanus H. Sweet.

Sources

Engineer's bios, at Rochester history
Political Graveyard
Livingston family tree
Life Sketches of State Officers, Senators, and Members of Assembly in the State of New York in 1867 by S. R. Harlow and H. H. Boone (pages 43ff; Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1867)

Political offices
Preceded by William B. Taylor	New York State Engineer and Surveyor 1866 - 1867	Succeeded by Van Rensselaer Richmond

v t e New York State Engineers and Surveyors

Surveyors General	Schuyler De Witt Campbell Holley Jones Halsey

State Engineers and Surveyors	Stuart H C Seymour McAlpine (Bristol) Ramsay Clark S Seymour Richmond Taylor Goodsell Richmond Taylor S Sweet Van Buren H Seymour S Seymour E Sweet Bogart Schenck Adams Bond Van Alstyne Skene Williams Bensel Williams LaDu Finch

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Name	Goodsell, Jonas Platt
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Date of birth	1819
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Date of death	November 22, 1869
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