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Parke Godwin (1816–1904)
Godwin, Parke. An American author; born at Paterson, NJ, Feb. 25, 1816; died at New York, Jan. 7, 1904. He began the study of law, but abandoned it for literary pursuits. In addition to translations from the German, and the well-known compilation, ‘Handbook of Universal Biography’ (1851), he published: ‘Constructive Democracy’ (1851); ‘Vala: A Mythological Tale’ (1851); ‘Out of the Past’ (1870); ‘Essays’; ‘Biography of Bryant’ (1883).