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Harry Post Godwin
Harry Post Godwin (February 10, 1857 – March 30, 1900) was an American newspaper editor. He was born in Binghamton, New York. At a young age he moved to Washington, D.C., where he was educated. At age 17, he began working at the '' National Republican'', where he quickly became chief editor. He worked there for seven years until 1881, when he became city editor at ''The Washington Star'', where he worked for nearly 20 years. To test William Price, Godwin sent him to the White House to find a story, and he came back with a good headline which started a new form of journalism directed at uncovering the White House. After resigning from ''The Washington Star'' in 1897, Godwin went to New York to take a high-ranking position in the Columbia Phonograph Company. Personal life Godwin is the son of a Union Army soldier who disappeared in the Civil War, and grandson of Abraham Godwin Jr. He married Annie Falconer Stoppard on April 9, 1880. He had four sons: Earl Godwin (radio and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and the editorial staff. Responsibilities Typical responsibilities of editors-in-chief include: * Ensuring that content is journalistically objective * Fact-checking, spelling, grammar, writing style, page design and photos * Rejecting writing that appears to be plagiarized, ghostwritten, published elsewhere, or of little interest to readers * Evaluating and editing content * Contributing editorial pieces * Motivating and developing editorial staff * Ensuring the final draft is complete * Handling reader compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parke Godwin
Parke Godwin (January 28, 1929 – June 19, 2013) was an American writer. He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1982 for his story " The Fire When It Comes". He was a native of New York City, where he was born in 1929. He was the grandson of Harry Post Godwin. Works Godwin is known for his novels of legendary figures placed in realistic historical settings, written in a lyrical yet precise prose style and sardonic humor. His retelling of parts of the Arthur legend, ''Firelord'' in 1980, ''Beloved Exile'' in 1984, and ''The Lovers: The Legend of Tristan and Yseult'' in 1999 (under the pseudonym Kate Hawks) is set in the 5th century during the collapse of the Roman Empire, and his reinterpretation of Robin Hood (''Sherwood'', 1991, and ''Robin and the King'', 1993) takes place during the Norman Conquest and features kings William the Conqueror and William Rufus as major characters. His other well-known works include '' Waiting for the Galactic Bus'' (1988) and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 Deaths
As of March 1 (Old Style, O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (Old Style, O.S. February 15), 2100. Summary Political and military The year 1900 was the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Two days into the new year, the United States Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy regarding Qing dynasty, China, advocating for equal access for all nations to the Chinese market. The 1900 Galveston hurricane, Galveston hurricane would become the List of disasters in the United States by death toll, deadliest natural disaster in United States history, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people, mostly in and near Galveston, Texas, as well as leaving 10,000 people homeless, destroying 7,000 buildings of all kinds in Galveston. As of 2025, it remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1857 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen. * January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating. * January 9 – The 7.9 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake, Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central California, Central and Southern California, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''). * January 24 – The University of Calcutta is established in Kolkata, Calcutta, as the first multidisciplinary modern university in South Asia. The University of Bombay is also established in Mumbai, Bombay, British India, this year. * February 3 – The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, D.C., becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf. * February 5 – The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857, Federal Constitution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godwin Family (United States)
Godwin is an English-language surname with Anglo-Saxon origins. It means ''God's friend'' and is thus equivalent to Theophilus, Jedediah, Amadeus and Reuel. However, the word "Godwin" can also mean "helper of mankind" Surname or only known name House of Godwin * Ancestry of the Godwins * Godwin, Earl of Wessex (died 1053), earl in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great ** Harold Godwinson *** Edmund, son of Harold Godwinson *** Godwin, son of Harold Godwinson *** Harold, son of Harold Godwinson *** Magnus, son of Harold Godwinson *** Ulf, son of Harold Godwinson ** Gyrth Godwinson ** Sweyn Godwinson ** Tostig Godwinson ** Leofwine Godwinson ** Wulfnoth Godwinson Politics and governance * Abraham Godwin (1763–1835), New Jersey General Assembly 1802–1806, Elector for Andrew Jackson 1828 * Abraham Godwin Jr. (1791–1849), New Jersey General Assembly 1821–1832, took vote to D.C. for Presidential Election 1840 * Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (1873–1929), No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery is an cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth (Washington, D.C.), Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the historic President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument, Soldiers' Home and the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery. History The cemetery was first established in 1719 in the British America, British colonial Province of Maryland as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church within the Rock Creek Parish. Later, the vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is the List of municipalities in Connecticut, most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut and the List of cities in New England by population, fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020. Located in eastern Fairfield County, Connecticut, Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock River on Long Island Sound, it is a port city from Manhattan and from The Bronx. It borders the towns of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull to the north, Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield to the west, and Stratford, Connecticut, Stratford to the east. Bridgeport and other towns in Fairfield County make up the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, as well as the Greater Bridgeport, Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolitan statistical area, the second largest Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area in Connecticut. The Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk–Danbury metropolis forms part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunwale
The gunwale () is the top edge of the hull of a ship or boat. Originally the structure was the "gun wale" on a sailing warship, a horizontal reinforcing band added at and above the level of a gun deck to offset the stresses created by firing artillery. Over time it remained as a valuable stiffener mounted inboard of the sheer strake on commercial and recreational craft. In modern boats, it is the top edge of the hull where there is usually some form of stiffening, often in the form of traditional wooden boat construction members called the "inwale" and "outwale". On a canoe, the gunwale is typically the widened edge at the top of its hull, reinforced with wood, plastic or aluminum, to carry the thwarts. On a narrowboat A narrowboat is a particular type of Barge, canal boat, built to fit the narrow History of the British canal system, locks of the United Kingdom. The UK's canal system provided a nationwide transport network during the Industrial Revolution, b ... or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Godwin Jr
Abraham Godwin Jr. (July 14, 1791 – August 18, 1849) was the first Lieutenant of the expedition to Canada in 1812 led by Generals Brown and Izard. He later rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the New Jersey state militia. In 1816, when his eldest brother Henry committed suicide, he became Postmaster of Paterson, a position he would hold until 1829 and briefly again before his death in 1849. In 1821, he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly, serving until 1832. In November 1840, Abraham delivered New Jersey electoral votes to Washington, D.C. for that year's presidential election. Personal life He is the son of Abraham Godwin, grandson of Captain Abraham Godwin, husband of Martha Parke, and father of three sons. His eldest was famous Parke Godwin, his second son Henry was a lawyer in Binghamton, New York, and disappeared in the Civil War, and the youngest son Abraham, was a house painter, captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and died a prisoner of the Confeder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. Binghamton is the principal city and cultural center of the Binghamton metropolitan area (also known as Greater Binghamton, or historically the Triple Cities, including Endicott and Johnson City), home to a quarter million people. The city's population, according to the 2020 United States census, is 47,969. From the days of the railroad, Binghamton was a transportation crossroads and a manufacturing center, and has been known at different times for the production of cigars, shoes, and computers. IBM was founded nearby, and the flight simulator was invented in the city, leading to a notable concentration of electronics- and defense-oriented firms. This sustained economic prosperity ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of America, Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by U.S. state, states that had Secession in the United States, seceded from the Union. The Origins of the American Civil War, central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether Slavery in the United States, slavery should be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prohibited from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War, Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion, won the 1860 presidential election. Seven Southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
