Samuel Griswold Goodrich
American author
Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley, was an American author. Wikipedia
Born: August 19, 1793, Ridgefield, CT
Died: May 9, 1860 (age 66 years), New York, NY
Books: Peter Parley’s Universal History on the Basis of Geography, Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen ; in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend ; Historical, Biographical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive, Enterprise, Industry and Art of Man: As Displayed in Fishing, Hunting, Commerce, Navigation, Mining, Agriculture and Manufactures, and more
Children: Mary Wolcott Lowell and Emily Goodrich Smith
Previous offices: Massachusetts State Senator (1837–1837) and Massachusetts State Representative (1836–1836)
Grandchild: Frederick Eldridge Lowell
Grandparents: Elizur Goodrich, Sarah Worthington, John Ely, and more
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