Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - William Goodell (1792<unk>1867) ya kasance mai wa'azi na Amurka. An haife shi ne a Templeton, Mass., Ya yi karatu a Phillips Academy (Andover), Kwalejin Dartmouth, da kuma Andover Theological Seminary. Hukumar Amurka ta karbe shi a matsayin mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje kuma a ƙarshen 1822 ya tashi zuwa Malta kuma daga can a shekara mai zuwa ya tafi Beirut, inda ya taimaka wajen kafa tashar da ta zama cibiyar aikin Siriya. A shekara ta 1828, saboda barazanar yaƙi tsakanin Ingila da Turkiyya, 'yan mishan sun ƙaura zuwa Malta, inda Goodell ya yi aiki a cikin shirya da buga littattafai don aikin; har sai, a 1831, an buɗe hanya ta hanyar lalata jirgin ruwan Turkiyya a Navarino
, ya tafi Constantinople, inda ya fara aikin Armeniya-Turkiya. A lokacin hidimarsa na wa'azi a ƙasashen waje shi da matarsa masu aminci sun jimre wa gwaji da haɗari da yawa da farin ciki kuma an tilasta musu su canja mazauninsu sau 33 a cikin shekara 29. Ofaya daga cikin manyan ayyukansa shi ne fassarar Littafi Mai-Tsarki zuwa Armeno-Turkish (Turkish da aka rubuta da haruffan Armeniya), a cikin yin da kuma gyara wanda ya shafe shekaru 20. A shekara ta 1865, bayan shekaru 43 na aiki, ya koma Amurka kuma ya mutu a Philadelphia a gidan dansa, Dr. William Goodell, a ranar 18 ga Fabrairu, 1867. Bincika rayuwarsa ta Firayim (New York, 1876).