Born in 1816 in New Jersey, Godwin graduates from the College of New Jersey (Princeton as of 1896) and passes the bar before shifting to journalism with The New York Evening Post in 1836. Once there, his widely read editorials attack slavery and support various utopian socialist movements. He is an avid supporter of Abraham Lincoln and supports the controversial Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. He follows his father-in-law William Cullen Bryant as Editor-in-Chief at the Post in 1878, after Bryant’s death. He edits the scholarly Putnam’s Magazine from 1868-70. He lives on to 87 years old, dying in 1904.
Parke Godwin
