S. G. G. ; preud. Peter Parley / Gudoricchi / グッドリッチ; 具度律智 ;
1793 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
1860
New York City, USA
Congregational minister
writer Charles A. Goodrich (brother) ;
largely self-educated; became assistant in a country store at Danbury, Connecticut, which he left in 1808, later at Hartford, Conn.
United States of America
Samuel Griswold Goodrich: Peter Parley's illustrations of the vegetable kingdom. Trees, plants and shrubs (Boston 1840) ; Illustrations of the Animal Kingdom. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles & Insects (1859, reprint 2013) ; author & editor of about 170 volumes, many illustr., mostly for young readers ;
elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836, of the state Senate in 1837; 1851-1853 US-consul at Paris;
cf. also his book: Manners, customs, & antiquities of the Indians of North and South America ;
botanical, ethnological, historical, natural, and zoological drawing
Archives & Spec.Coll. at Amherst College hold a collection of his papershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Griswold_Goodrich
Samuel Griswold Goodrich: Recollections of a lifetime, or men and things I have seen (1857, 2 vols.) ;
1816-22 he was bookseller & publisher in Hartford, Connecticut. He visited Europe from 1823 to 1824, and moved to Boston in 1826. In 1833 he bought 45 acres (180,000 m2) in nearby Roxbury & built a home in what is now Jamaica Plain.
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