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Proceedings of the Century Association in Honor of the Memory of Brig.-Gen. James S. Wadsworth and Colonel Peter A. Porter;
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Frederick Swartwout Cozzens was an American author and wine merchant. He contributed his humorous poems and articles to various magazines including "The Knickerbocker". He was also an editor of the Wine Press from 1854 to 1861.
Background
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens was born on March 11, 1818 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Frederick Cozzens, a chemist and naturalist of New York City. He was descended from Richard Haywarde who was born in Hampshire, England, in 1693, and emigrated to Rhode Island as a Moravian missionary. Haywarde’s great-grand-daughter married Issachar Cozzens, Quaker descendant of Leonard Cozzens, who had been admitted to Rhode Island as a freeman on May 3, 1715, after his emigration from Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Issachar Cozzens, who fought at Bunker Hill, was the paternal grandfather of Frederick Swartwout Cozzens.
His maternal grandmother was a native of Carlisle on the Scottish Border and possessed a fund of Border tales and ballads, to his familiarity with which as a boy he later attributed his passion for poetry. As a child Cozzens formed studious tastes which led him to turn for recreation to reading, to the theatre, to writing, and to travel.
Career
Cozzens devoted some attention to mechanics and spent three years in the machine branch of bank-note engraving. At the age of twenty-one, he entered the grocery and wine business in Vesey St. He gave active attention to his business until his failure in 1868, when he retired to Rahway, New Jersey.
He enjoyed the friendship of many of the writers of his generation, though literature was with him only an avocation. His first publication, Yankee Doodle (1847), was a humorous imitation of Spenser. At this time began his eight years of contribution, anonymous for the most part, to the Knickerbocker Magazine. Many of these essays, sketches, and poems were collected in Prismatics (1853) under the pseudonym Richard Haywarde, the name of his earliest American ancestor. His greatest popularity grew out of The Sparrowgrass Papers, an account with humorous exaggeration of the experiences of the city man in setting up a rural abode at “Chestnut Cottage, ” the author’s summer home in Yonkers.
The first chapters appeared in Putnam’s Magazine in 1854, and their publication in book form in 1856 won Cozzens immediate and wide recognition as a humorist. They were reprinted in at least five editions, of which the latest appeared in 1870.
In 1854 he began the publication of the Wine Press, a trade monthly designed primarily to promote the introduction of native wines. This he edited for seven years. The entertaining and instructive essays on various topics by Cozzens and a few of his contemporaries, which had appeared, chiefly, in this periodical, were collected in The Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men (1867). The New York Publishers Association, in 1858, sent Cozzens as their representative to the copyright congress in Brussels.
Following a tour in Nova Scotia, he published Acadia; or, a Month with the Bluenoses (1859), and in the same year contributed to the New York Ledger his “True History of New Plymouth. ” Primarily a humorist, Cozzens could command at times an unpretentious, dignified style and a manner of simple eloquence. These traits characterize his memorials to Colonel Peter A. Porter (1864) and to Fitz-Greene Halleck (1868). His humor was widely copied and even imitated, but his popularity did not survive his century; and his unsatirical pleasantries have passed with the trivial incidents upon which they were expended.