Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Samuel Griswold Goodrich ( born August 19, 1793 in Ridgefield (Connecticut ); † May 9, 1860 in New York ) was an American educator and writer, he was better known by his pseudonym ' Peter Parley '.

Goodrich was devoted to the book trade and was, after he had visited Europe in 1824, in Boston, where he illustrated the 1828-42 yearbook The token issued, for which he wrote himself a large number of poems and short stories.

Its widespread Peter Parley Series of Juvenile Books fills 177 volumes. He also wrote:

  • Fireside Education ( 1838);
  • The Outcast, and other Poems (1841 );
  • Sketches from a Student 's Window (1841 );
  • A Winter Wreath of Summer Flowers (1854 );
  • Recollections of a Lifetime (1857, 2 vols, new ed 1880) and
  • Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom (1859, 2 vols ).

Under President Millard Fillmore held Goodrich 1851 the consular post in Paris. He died on 9 May 1863. His autobiography ( Story of My Own Life) issued Freeman 1862.

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