Godwin Parke Parke Godwin Son-in Law of William C. bryant, Page 1 of 3 Art History Library Science Natural History War You are in: Museum of History >> Hall of North and South Americans >> Parke Godwin Search Encyclopedias Poetry Reviews Britannica, Comptons, Americana, discount How good are you? Find out! Poetry pricing with free shipping contests, reviews and fun. C Web Ads by Goooooogle StanKlos Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 and 1999. StanKlos.com warns that these 19th Century biographies contain About l errors and bias. We rely on volunteers to edit the historic biographies on a continual basis. If you would like to edit this biography please submit a rewritten biography in text form. 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In 1843 he issued the "Pathfinder," a weekly, which was suspended after three months. He contributed many articles to the "Democratic Review," in which he advocated reforms that were subsequently introduced into the constitution and code of http://www.famousamericans.net/parkegodwin/ 6/17/2005 Parke Godwin Page 2 of 3 Ads by Goooooo New York. He was also editor of " Putnam's Monthly," to which he contributed Visit The many literary and political articles, which were published in book-form, under Museums Of the title "Political Essays" (New York, 1856). In 1865 he again became Experience th connected with the "Evening Post." During the administration of President culture of NYC Polk he was deputy collector of New York. Subsequently he joined the Museums with Republican party and supported it by his speeches and writings. 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Selection & Savings - Shop Now Ads by Goooooogle Join Bc Over 4,00C Name: Parke Godwin Birth Date: February 25, 1816 pages of Death Date: learn January 7, 1904 Nationality: American Gender: Join I Male Ads by Dictionary of Literary Biography on Parke Godwin Parke Godwin (25 February 1816-7 January 1904), social Essa reformer, literary critic, and editor of the New York Evening Post, Lead was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and died in New York City. He was a descendant of a notable New Jersey family that had played Access 1000s an important role in the American Revolution. Godwin's father Term & Rese More. S fought in the War of 1812 and attained officer's rank. The Godwin family was active in the Whig Party and at his father's urging, www.Chea Parke Godwin pursued a career in law and politics. Godwin enrolled at Princeton and graduated in 1834. Although trained for the bar, Godwin forsook his law practice in New York City for journalism. As a young writer in the city, Godwin soon became affiliated with the New York Evening Post, a newspaper with which he would be intermittently connected for forty-five years. At the Post, Godwin became a devotee of the "Loco-Foco" Democratic principles espoused by William Cullen Bryant, the newspaper's editor. In the years before the war, Godwin rose quickly in New York's genteel literary society and became Bryant's son-in-law and an assistant editor of the Post as well. Like many writers of his generation, Godwin believed that reform was the profession of all cultivated and moral men, and those who did not concern themselves with political and social criticism were lax in their civic responsibilities. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/parke-godwin-dlb/ 3/23/2007 Parke Godwin Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography Page 2 of 4 In addition to his work at the Post, Godwin was a contributor to John L. O'Sullivan's United States Magazine and Democratic Review. His articles on criminal justice, constitutional reform, and Toc utilitarianism were well-received by readers of the Review and Acti helped to bring him to the attention of Martin Van Buren and the from Won Democratic Party in New York City. In 1840 Godwin campaigned for Van Buren's presidency and for his efforts was appointed Colorful Deputy Collector of the New York Custom House. Easy-to- Fun onli During the 1840s Godwin grew disillusioned with American politics as it appeared to him that neither the Whigs nor the Democrats were interested in addressing the crucial problems caused by urbanization and industrialism. At this time Godwin Exp Wonde championed the nascent trade union movement and subsequently became a disciple of Charles Fourier, the widely- acclaimed French socialist. This latter decision precipitated a sharp political disagreement with Bryant and Godwin's resignation from the Post. In Fourier's plan of economically self-sufficient cooperative communities based on a socialist model Godwin saw an alternative to the unemployment, poverty, and injustice caused by the "factory system" and "commercial despotism." In 1842 Godwin established with Albert Brisbane the Phalanx, a magazine dedicated to popularizing cooperative communities. Godwin also published A Popular View of the Doctrines of Charles Fourier and Democracy, Constructive and Pacific (both in 1844). In Democracy Godwin argued that unless rural cooperative communities were established throughout the United States to provide urban workers an alternative to the competitive capitalist system, class strife would ensue. Thus Godwin anticipated the Marxian formulation of class struggle in capitalist society, but his prescriptions for social change were reformist rather than revolutionary. Godwin's interest in cooperative communities prompted him to become an ardent champion of the Brook Farm experiment. Many of the leaders who founded Brook Farm were strongly influenced by Fourier's work. Charles A. Dana, George W. Curtis, George Ripley, and Albert Brisbane espoused the ideals of Fourier. The Brook Farm Association was a rigorous form of social organization that combined the moral fervor of New England Transcendentalism with communitarian planning. As George Ripley, the leader of the community, was his close friend, Godwin served as Brook Farm's influential spokesman in urban publishing and trade union circles. During this period, Godwin edited the Harbinger, the first American magazine of literary and political http://www.bookrags.com/biography/parke-godwin-dlb/ 3/23/2007 Parke Godwin Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography Page 3 of 4 commentary with a socialist viewpoint. Live Search Godwin joined George Palmer Putnam in 1856 in the founding of Putnam's Monthly Magazine, a journal dedicated to lively discussions of politics and the arts in the United States. At See Your House from the sky - FREE! Putnam's Godwin Type Your Address Here attempted to focus the American literary imagination on the trans-Mississippi frontier. It was out of the West, Godwin believed, that a literature of American democracy, unencumbered by the tradition of racial slavery, would emerge. Godwin's outspoken opposition to the expansion of slavery into the territories prompted him to join the Free Soil movement and the Republican Party. Later, as a contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly, Godwin urged Americans to repudiate slavery. Throughout the presidential campaign of 1860 Godwin remained a loyal supporter of Abraham Lincoln and championed the cause of racial emancipation. In 1860 Godwin rejoined the Evening Post and acquired a financial interest in the paper. Although Godwin was a personal friend of Lincoln's, he argued constantly with the president and cabinet members over censorship, emancipation, and the conduct of the Civil War. During the postwar period, Godwin was instrumental in exposing the political corruption of William "Boss" Tweed in New York City. Following Bryant's death in 1878, Godwin sold all family interests in the Evening Post to Oswald Garrison Villard. Until his retirement in 1900, Godwin served as editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser. Although Godwin is best known as a magazine writer and editor who crusaded for economic reform and social justice before the Civil War, he was a productive literary critic for most of the nineteenth century. His best known literary effort was his four- volume edition of Bryant's writings (1883-1884) and a two- volume companion biography of Bryant (1883). He also edited the two-volume Autobiography of Goethe (1846-1847) and wrote Vala, A Mythological Tale (1851), based on the life of Jenny Lind. His Commemorative Addresses (1895) provides insights on George W. Curtis, Bryant, Edwin Booth, and other literary figures of his age. As a member of New York's genteel society, Godwin was associated with most of the major literary movements of the nineteenth century, and his acquaintances ranged from Washington Irving to William Dean Howells. http://www.bookrags.com/biography/parke-godwin-dlb/ 3/23/2007 Parke Godwin (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 2 Parke Godwin (journalist) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Parke Godwin (February 28, 1816 - January 7, 1904) was an American journalist associated with New York. Biography Godwin was born on February 28, 1816, in Paterson, New Jersey. [1] He became a lawyer and moved to New York City in 1837. [2] He became interested in journalism and by the end of the 1830s was writing for the Evening Post and The United States Magazine and Democratic Review under John L. O'Sullivan. [2] He became a supporter of Fourierism and wrote a book which became an authority on the movement. [3] However, in 1845, he was critical of the work of Albert Brisbane and his view of Associationism, though he still contributed to the new incarnation of Brisbane's journal The Phalanx printed at Brook Farm in Massachusetts. [4] Godwin saw these sorts of communities as embracing the democratic ideals and equal rights. [5] Further, he believed there was a connection between democracy and religion; as he said "Christianity and Democracy are one. "[6] In May 1846, Godwin was elected Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the New England Fourier Society. [7] In 1850, Godwin and his family allowed Catharine Forrest to stay with them during the public scandal that erupted surrounding her divorce from actor Edwin Forrest. [8] Also in the 1850s, Godwin became an ardent abolitionist and felt that slavery diluted the American concept. In 1855, he asked: "What is America, and who are Americans? The real American gives his mind and heart to the grand constituent ideas of the republic. no matter whether his corporeal chemistry was first ignited in Kamschatka [sic] or the moon". [9] Godwin was against slavery, but ridiculed the New England reform movements for not attempting to impact the rest of the country. He said, "If the Deity should consult New England about making a new world, they would advise that it should be made the size of Massachusetts, have no city but Boston and insist in making an occasional donation to a charitable institution and uttering shallow anti-slavery sentiments. "[10] Godwin became an associate editor of Putnam's Magazine with George William Curtis under managing editor Charles Frederick Briggs; the three also collaborated on a gift book called The Homes of American Authors (1852). [11] Godwin expressed his antislavery sentiments in Putnam's and criticized then-president Franklin Pierce; backlash from Democrats hurt the circulation of the magazine, especially after November 1854, when Godwin published his essay "American Despotisms". [12] In 1857, he and fellow editor Curtis supported Frederick Law Olmsted as designer of Central Park. [13] Godwin became sole editor of Putnam's from January 1868 to November 1870. Later, he edited the posthumous works of William Cullen Bryant as Poetical Works (1883) and Complete Prose Writings (1884) as well as A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, with Extracts from his private Correspondence (1883). Godwin died of an illness at 5:30 a.m. on January 7, 1904, at his New York home, surrounded by several of his daughters. [14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parke_Godwin_(journalist) 2/13/2010 Parke Godwin (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 2 References 1. Baker, Carlos. "Parke Godwin: Pathfinder in Politics and Journalism", Lives of Eighteen from Princeton. Willard Thorp, editor. Princeton University Press, 1946: 213. ISBN 0836909410 2. a Guarneri, Carl J. The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth Century America. New York: b Cornell University Press, 1991: 40. ISBN 0-8014-8197-X 3. Baker, Carlos. "Parke Godwin: Pathfinder in Politics and Journalism", Lives of Eighteen from Princeton. Willard Thorp, editor. Princeton University Press, 1946: 218. ISBN 0836909410 4. Delano, Sterling F. Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004: 219. ISBN 0-674-01160-0 5. Guarneri, Carl J. The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Cornell University Press, 1991: 42. ISBN 0-8014-8197-X 6. Widmer, Edward L. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 40. ISBN 0-19-514062-1 7. Delano, Sterling F. Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004: 270-271. ISBN 0-674-01160-0 8. Baker, Thomas N. Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001: 117. ISBN 0-19-512073-6 9. Widmer, Edward L. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 214-215. ISBN 0-19-514062-1 10. Widmer, Edward L. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 62. ISBN 0-19-514062-1 11. Baker, Carlos. "Parke Godwin: Pathfinder in Politics and Journalism", Lives of Eighteen from Princeton. Willard Thorp, editor. Princeton University Press, 1946: 220. ISBN 0836909410 12. Miller, Perry. The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 319. ISBN 0-8018-5750-3 13. Klaus, Melvin. Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist. New York: New York University Press, 186. ISBN 9780814746189 14. Baker, Carlos. "Parke Godwin: Pathfinder in Politics and Journalism", Lives of Eighteen from Princeton. Willard Thorp, editor. Princeton University Press, 1946: 230. ISBN 0836909410 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parke_Godwin_(journalist)" Categories: 1816 births 1904 deaths American journalists This page was last modified on 28 December 2009 at 13:52. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parke_Godwin_(journalist) 2/13/2010 and 1st President of 2020 Century Archives - The Century Association Archives Foundation ARCHIVES Charter member B.H.Village Improvement "SyeAsociation. THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION Lived in Godwin Cottage Albert leadows ARCHIVES OUNDATIONAL See Barttarbor by E. 6. Shettlewo 1th, Ft. EST.1997 Pg. 100 photo. About the CAAF CENTURY ASSOCIATION BIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE important Materials Earliest Members of the Century Association Publications View all members Online Reference Shelf Collection Access PARKE GODWIN Board of Trustees How to Donate Journalist Centurion, 1864-1904 Century Association Biographical Archive Born 28 February 1816 in Paterson, New Jersey Died 7 January 1904 in New York (Manhattan), New York Finding Aid to the Collection Buried Roslyn Cemetery [3, Roslyn, New York Finding Aid to the Platt Proposed by George Bancroft and Edward A. Stansbury Library Centurions on Stamps Elected 12 November 1864 at age forty-eight FDR: A Man of the Century (Audio File) Archivist's Note: Son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant; father of Bryant Godwin Hot Buttons: Presidential Campaigns Proposer of: Seconder of: and the Century Charles W. Shields John O. Sargent Association Century Association Nobelists Century Memorial When the Clubhouse Was New (Photo Gallery) The name of Parke Godwin, though his striking figure was familiar in our rooms until a few weeks ago, carries the mind back to what seem to the present generation the boyhood days of the nation Parke Godwin in literature and in public affairs. Born in 1816 and graduated from Princeton at an early age, he 1864. was admitted to the bar in this State when but twenty-one. He almost immediately took up Parke Godwin journalism as his profession and was assistant to Mr. Bryant on The Evening Post at the time Member Photograph Albums Collection when that powerful organ of the Democratic party was in the first flush of its long conflict in Album 2, Leaf 73 //www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=542 1/2 2020 Century Archives- The Century Association Archives Foundation support of free trade and was entering on its even more strenuous fight against slavery, in both of which Godwin bore a vigorous and stubborn part. He was an associate of that strange genius, John L. O'Sullivan, in the then famous and now almost forgotten Democratic Review. With [Charles Frederick] Briggs and Curtis he edited the Putnam's Magazine, in which about all there was-and there was a good deal- of American literature was represented. He found time, incidentally, to edit The Harbinger, the brilliant and eccentric organ of the Brook Farm group, and to write on the doctrines of Charles Fourier in the somewhat quixotic attempt to disentangle the practicable from the impracticable in the teachings of that fascinating and noble student of ideals. He issued translations from the French and from the German, and contributed to that emancipation from purely English fashions and that inspiration from the Continental mind which was of SO great importance in intellectual development of America. He was a reader of almost unlimited range, and his singularly retentive memory and unflagging zest gave him command of remarkable resources. In politics Mr. Godwin was in the original sense democratic. He was a profound believer in the principle that the utmost possible freedom was the sole object of rational government. Naturally he plunged from the first into the Free Soil movement, was a delegate to its first convention, held at Syracuse, and never ceased his ardent advocacy until the triumph of the cause came with emancipation during the Civil War. Then he gladly severed his connection with the protectionist tendencies of the party with which he had been working and resumed his efforts for freedom of commerce. During all his long life Mr. Godwin added to his prolific activity as a writer unusual success as a public speaker. Here also his remarkable memory was aided by his sustained enthuisasm. Few of us who heard his address on his friend and associate, George William Curtis, can forget its simplicity, eloquence, vigor, and polish, and the entire ease with which it was delivered without manuscript or notes, and like addresses on Bryant, on Kossuth, on Edwin Booth, on Audubon, were not less remarkable. Mr. Godwin was eminently of a social nature and was for twoscore years constant in his frequentation of the Century. Edward Cary 1904 Century Association Yearbook Parke Godwin Questions, comments, corrections: email caba@centuryarchives.org 1864-1904 2012-2020 Century Association Archives Foundation Parke Godwin Frederick Hill Meserve Collection Album 1, Leaf 43 //www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonlD=542