Copyright records indicate Goodale, a Presbyterian minister and evangelist, was living in Neosho, Missouri, in 1903.
The Herald and Presbyter, Volume 90, number 27, July 2, 1919, stated he moved from Webster Groves, Missouri, to York, Nebraska; a 1922 issue of that periodical gave his brother’s name as B. W. Goodale. The Lincoln Journal Star, November 21, 1927, reported Goodale had accepted a call to the pastorate of a Presbyterian church in Yuma, Colorado.