Born on March 23, 1815, in Wyk Auf Föhr, Nordfriesland, now Germany, Daniel Johannes Goos immigrated to Philadelphia in 1835, soon moved to New Orleans, married Katarina Barbara Moeling on March 26, 1846, moved to Lake Charles in 1855, and died on May 19, 1898, in Goosport north of Lake Charles. In 1855 he sailed up the Calcasieu River with his wife, Katherine B. Moeling, their seven children, and his mill, built his home in North Lake Charles, later known as Goosport, and brought knowledge of merchant shipping, schooner building, seafaring, and lumber milling. He combined the resources of local lumber mills, including Jacob Ryan's, and established trade routes to Gulf of Mexico ports including Galveston, New Orleans, and Mexico; with the export of longleaf yellow pine lumber, schooners returned with goods to sell. This helped begin the rise of Lake Charles and its economy as the commercial center of southwest Louisiana. During the Civil War, he focused on keeping Lake Charles fed, supplied, and defended, converting his schooners into blockade runners that slipped past Union boats to bring back supplies, food, and medicine for the sick and wounded. He also converted part of his home into a hospital, where for months the Goos women cared for soldiers from both the North and the South, and once they healed, he paid for their safe return to their families. He was remembered for treating every person fairly, regardless of race or origin, and for giving food, shelter, and work. He brought the Lutheran faith to Lake Charles and founded its first Lutheran church on Ford Street, helped increase lumber production by 200 percent in the late 1800's, and was a founding member of Germania Lodge No. 46, F.& A. M. in New Orleans and a life member of Lake Charles Lodge No. 165 F.& A. M. He also befriended a local tribe of Attakapas Indians, who called him "A Good Man," and he was recalled as saying that work should be done not only for the present but for those who will come after us.