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GOODRICH, SAMUEL GRISWOLD (1793-1860)

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GOODRICH, See also:SAMUEL See also:GRISWOLD (1793-1860) , See also:American author, better known under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Peter Parley," was See also:born, the son of a Congregational See also:minister, at Ridgefield, See also:Connecticut, on the 19th of See also:August 1793. He was largely self-educated, became an assistant in a See also:country See also:store at See also:Danbury, See also:Conn., in 18o8, and at See also:Hartford, Conn., in 1811, and from 1816 to 1822 was a bookseller and publisher at Hartford. He visited See also:Europe in 1823–1824, and in 1826 removed to See also:Boston, where he continued in the See also:publishing business, and from 1828 to 1842 he published an illustrated See also:annual, the Token, to which he was a frequent contributor both in See also:prose and See also:verse. A selection from these contributions was published in 1841 under the See also:title Sketches from a Student's Window. The Token also contained some of the earliest See also:work of Nathaniel See also:Hawthorne, N. P. See also:Willis, See also:Henry W. See also:Longfellow and See also:Lydia Maria See also:Child. In 1841 he established Merry's Museum, which he continued to edit till 1854. In 1827 he began, under the name of " Peter Parley," his See also:series of books for the See also:young, which embraced See also:geography, See also:biography, See also:history, See also:science and See also:miscellaneous tales. Of these he was the See also:sole author of only a few, but in 1857 he wrote that he was "the author and editor of about 170 volumes," and that about seven millions had been sold. In 1857 he published Recollections of a Lifetime, which contains a See also:list both of the See also:works of which he was the author or editor and of the See also:spurious works published under his name.

By his writings and publications he amassed a large See also:

fortune. He was chosen a member of the See also:Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1836, and of the See also:state See also:Senate in 1837, his competitor in the last See also:election being See also:Alexander H. See also:Everett, and in 1851–1853 he was See also:consul at See also:Paris, where he remained till 1855, taking See also:advantage of his stay to have several of his works translated into See also:French. After his return to See also:America, he published, in 1859, Illustrated History of the See also:Animal See also:Kingdom. He died, in New See also:York, on the 9th of May 186o. His See also:brother, See also:CHARLES AUOUSTUS GooDRICH (179o-1862), a Congregational clergyman, published various ephemeral books, and helped to compile some of the " Peter Parley " series.

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