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Parke Godwin wsa an American editor, author and translator. His articles were largely on economic and social subjects. Besides his work for several journals, he compiled biography books. He was also in demand as a speaker on memorial occasions.
Background
Parke Godwin was born on February 28, 1816, in Paterson, New Jersey, where his family had been of some prominence. His great-grandfather, Abraham Godwin, had kept a tavern in or near Totowa in the middle of the eighteenth century and with three sons, one of them Parke’s grandfather, had fought in the Revolution. His father had served as a lieutenant in the War of 1812.
Education
Godwin was graduated from Princeton in 1834, read law at Paterson, and went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was admitted to the bar and opened a law office.
Career
Before acquiring a practice, Godwin returned to New York City, being, according to one account, too much disturbed by the presence of slavery to remain.
In a New York boarding house in 1836, he met William Cullen Bryant and began an acquaintance that led to both professional and personal relationships. Bryant offered him a position on the New York Evening Post, a journal with which Godwin was intermittently connected for forty-five years.
He contributed articles, largely on economic and social subjects, to J. L. O’Sullivan’s United States Magazine and Democratic Review. He was one of the New Yorkers who sympathized with the social movements being advocated in New England during the early forties, especially Brook Farm.
Though never a resident, he is said to have given this venture hearty support, and to have written the first address in favor of “association”; and he later edited the Harbinger, organ of the disciples of Fourier, who became increasingly important in the movement.
He also published Democracy, Constructive and Pacific, and A Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier (both 1844). During the presidential campaign of 1860, he was active both in writing and in speaking.
In 1853, he became associated with C. S. Briggs and George William Curtis in the editorship of the newly founded and short-lived Putnam’s Monthly Magazine. His volume of Political Essays (1856) was gathered from his contributions to Putnam’s.
Besides his work for the journals mentioned, and others, he compiled a Hand-Book of Universal Biography (1852), later revised as The Cyclopaedia of Biography (1866, 1878). He projected history of France, of which only the first volume, bringing the narrative to 843 a. d. , was published (1860).
He also edited the works of William Cullen Bryant and accompanied them with a biography.
Evidence of his general literary interests may be found in his translations, made during the transcendental period, of the first part of The Autobiography of Goethe, which he edited, and Zschokke’s Tales; in Vala, A Mythological Tale (1851) associated with the life of Jennie Lind; and in A New Study of the Sonnets of Shakespeare (1900), published when he was eighty-four years old.
Out of the Past (1870) was a collection of literary and critical papers contributed to various journals - the first as early as 1839. A similar collection of political and social papers, promised in the preface of this volume, seems never to have been issued.
Godwin acquired a financial interest in the New York Evening Post in 1860. Both before and after that date he was close to Bryant in the editorial conduct of the paper. After the death of Bryant in 1878, he became editor-in-chief.
After three somewhat troubled years of editorship, Godwin closed his connection with the Post in 1881, when the paper was sold to the Villard interests. He soon became editor of the Commercial Advertiser, a position that he held until he retired from active routine duties.
The list of his books and the known amount of his journalistic work would seem sufficient to refute the charge of laziness made by some of his acquaintances; though it must be remembered that his active career covered a period of nearly seventy years.
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Politics
In politics, Godwin became first a Free-Soil Democrat, then a Republican. Godwin's faith in Lincoln was unwavering and from a once- famous interview with the President he brought back to doubting New York Republicans the personal message that an emancipation proclamation was being delayed only until a favorable moment.
Views
Differences of opinion as to policies had long existed between Bryant and Godwin on the one hand, and Henderson, business manager, and half owner, on the other; and a controversy that had smoldered while the veteran editor lived became active at his death.
Godwin always retained his idealism, although, when he died, the fact that he had been prominent in these transcendental experiments full sixty years before appealed to the imagination and probably led commentators to lay undue stress upon this part of his career.
Personality
Godwin’s hair and beard are said to have become snowy white at a comparatively early age, and in his impressive portraits, both appear as profuse as those of his distinguished father-in-law.
Connections
On May 12, 1842, Godwin was married to Bryant’s eldest daughter, Fanny.