In May 1851, Caley visited friends at Liverpool and news articles were published about his size.

He eventually moved to the United States and adopted the name Colonel Routh Goshen.

By November 1863 he was being billed alongside Anna Swan, General Tom Thumb, and Commodore Nutt at Barnum's American Museum.

Another fictional biography described his history as: This worthy descendant of the Brohdignagian race first saw the light of day forty three years ago in the city of Jerusalem, Palestine.

His arms are the thickness of saplings and his fist possesses the ponderosity of the hammer of Thor.

...[6][7] In 1876, he toured the United States with Commodore Nutt as part of the Lilliputian Comic Opera's performance of a version of the story of Jack the Giant Killer.

In July 1888, a fire occurred at Goshen's farm near Middlebush that destroyed several buildings and his collection of memorabilia.

[15] Around 1869 he married Augusta White a German snake charmer that he met while traveling for his show.

At one point fellow circus performer, John Sweet and his wife the bareback rider Mrs. Elizabeth Sebastian lived with the Goshen family.

Lillie, who married Martin Robert, a clog dancer, and Frances Goshen Sylvester (1868-1949).

If she were to die without any heirs, Goshen wanted his estate to go to his sister, Margaret Caley Gelling of Rochester, New York.

His will was contested by his ex-wife Mary Welch who was living with family in Elgin, Illinois.

After the funeral services were over the coffin was borne on the shoulder of eight sturdy farmers to a wagon which was standing in the road about 100 yards (91 m) from the house.

Undertaker Van Duyn said he could not find a hearse large enough to hold the giant's coffin.

The pall bearers had a hard struggle in carrying the remains down the incline leading from the house to the road and when they deposited the coffin in the wagon, beads of perspiration stood out on their foreheads.

[23] Then in 1980, a letter was sent to the Middlebush Reformed Church stating that his real name was "Arthur James Caley", and claiming he was born in the village of Sulby on the Isle of Man in 1827.