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=Goodrich, Chauncey Allen.= _Ct._, 1790-1860. A Congregational
clergyman, professor at Yale University, 1817-60. He published Greek
and Latin Lessons; A Greek Grammar; was the editor and reviser of
Webster’s Dictionary, and also edited Select British Eloquence, with
careful critical notes. _Har._
=Goodrich, Frank Boot.= “Dick Tinto.” _Ms._, 1826-1894. Son to S. G.
Goodrich, _infra_. A dramatist and miscellaneous writer of New York
city. The Court of Napoleon; Man upon the Sea; Tri-Colored Sketches
of Paris; The Tribute Book; World-Famous Women; Women of Beauty and
Heroism; History of Maritime Adventure. _Lip._
=Goodrich, Samuel Griswold.= “Peter Parley.” _Ct._, 1793-1863. Brother
of Charles A. Goodrich, _supra_. A once famous writer and compiler of
Boston and New York. He published nearly two hundred volumes, mainly
juvenile and educational, some of which achieved a wide popularity.
Among them are, History of All Nations; Tales of Peter Parley about
America; Recollections of a Lifetime, an autobiography. _See Allibone’s
Dictionary._
=Goodwin, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. James
Pitts and his Sons in the American Revolution; The Dearborns; The
Lord’s Table; Provincial Pictures.
=Goodwin, Daniel Raynes.= _Me._, 1811-1890. An Episcopal clergyman
who was a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and of much
prominence as a Low Churchman. Southern Slavery in its Present Aspects;
Christianity Neither Ascetic nor Fanatic; The Christian Ministry; Shall
we Return to Rome?; The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; The New Ritualistic
Divinity; Christian Eschatology. _See Bibliography of Maine._
=Goodwin, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth [Bradbury].= _Ms._, 1827-1893. A Boston
writer for young people, among whose works are Madge; Christine’s
Fortune; Dorothy Gray; Dr. Howells’s Family; Fortunes of Miss Follen.
_Ap._
=Goodwin, Isaac.= _Ms._, 1786-1832. A writer of Worcester,
Massachusetts, and the father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin, _supra_.
History of the Town of Stirling; The Town Officer; The New England
Sheriff.
=Goodwin, John Abbott.= _Ms._, 1824-1884. Son of I. Goodwin, _supra._ A
Lowell writer who published The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans nor
Persecutors; The Pilgrim Republic, an historical review of the Plymouth
colony. _Hou._
=Goodwin, Mrs. Lavinia Stella [Tyler].= _Vt._, 1833- ----. The
Mysterious Miner; The Little Helper; Little Folks’ Own. _Le._
=Goodwin=, =Mrs. Maud [Wilder].= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. An historical
novelist of New York city. The Colonial Cavalier, or Southern Life
before the Revolution; The Head of a Hundred; White Aprons, an
historical romance; Dolly Madison, a biography. _Lit. Scr._
=Goodwin, Nathaniel.= _Ct._, 1782-1855. A Hartford genealogist and
probate judge. Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of
Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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