Arza Brown Goldsberry was born 16 October 1826 in Ohio, son of Levi Taylor Goldsberry (c1804-1879) and Rachel Sams. Information about Levi Taylor Goldsberry can be found elsewhere on this forum. Arza Brown Goldsberry appears to have been named for Arza Brown, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher who was assigned to the Straight Creek Circuit of the Scioto District of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church in 1825.
Arza Brown Goldsberry married Mahala Sears on 6 June 1849 in Muscatine County, Iowa. Mahala was born about 1828 in Ohio, daughter of Abram Sears and Matilda Buckhannon.

Arza and Mahala are believed to have had nine children: Laura Bell Goldsberry, born in March 1850 in Muscatine County, Iowa, and married William Henry Armstrong; Francis M. Goldsberry, born in May 1852 in Iowa, and married twice; Emeline A. Goldsberry, born about 1852 in Iowa; George O. Goldsberry, born 2 September 185_ at Monmouth, Jackson County, Iowa, and married Cornelia Sophia Jenkins; Martha Alice Goldsberry, born about 1859 in Iowa; Abraham L. Goldsberry, born about 1860 in Iowa, and married Lena Della Jenkins; Mary H. (or N.) Goldsberry, born about 1863 in Iowa; Arza B. Goldsberry, born in 1866 in Iowa, and married Mary ____________; and, William Sherman Goldsberry, born about 1868 in Iowa. Arza Brown Goldsberry and his family appear in the 1850 and 1860 Federal Censuses for Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, but by September 1863 they had moved to Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa. They also appear in the 1870 Federal Census for Red Rock, Red Rock Township, Marion County, Iowa, and in the 1880 Federal Census for the First Ward of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Subsequently they moved to Nebraska.

Arza Brown Goldsberry died 31 August 1908 at Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska, and he is buried in Wyuka Cemetery at Nebraska City, Nebraska.