By the time he was 18 the family was living in New York where he attended Flushing High School in Queens.

Goldsborough was trapped in the wreckage with a head injury for 18 hours before he was rescued, alive but not conscious.

He was carried away by rescuers on a makeshift stretcher made from a parachute to the home of Harry C. Jenkins.

Goldsborough died on July 16, 1930, at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington on his 20th birthday, without regaining consciousness.

His body was moved by his stepmother and reburied on 30 July 1930 to Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.