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See also:SAMUEL See also:GRISWOLD See also:GOODRICH (1793-1860)
, See also:American author, better known under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Peter Parley," was See also:born, the son of a Congregational See also:minister, at Ridgefield, See also:Connecticut, on the 19th of See also:August 1793
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He was largely self-educated, became an assistant in a See also:country See also:store at See also:Danbury, See also:Conn., in 18o8, and at See also:Hartford, Conn., in 1811, and from 1816 to 1822 was a bookseller and publisher at Hartford
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He visited See also:Europe in 1823–1824, and in 1826 removed to See also:Boston, where he continued in the See also:publishing business, and from 1828 to 1842 he published an illustrated See also:annual, the Token, to which he was a frequent contributor both in See also:prose and See also:verse
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A selection from these contributions was published in 1841 under the See also:title Sketches from a Student's Window
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The Token also contained some of the earliest See also:work of Nathaniel See also:Hawthorne, N
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P
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See also:Willis, See also:
By his writings and publications he amassed a large See also:fortune
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He was chosen a member of the See also:Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1836, and of the See also:state See also:Senate in 1837, his competitor in the last See also:election being See also: |
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