Harry Post Godwin (1857 - 1900)

Born 10 Feb 1857 in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States

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Died 30 Mar 1900 at age 43 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Harry Post Godwin (usually called Henry) was born 10Feb1857 at Washington DC [1] He was the son of Henry and Helen Jackson. Henry disappeared at the close of the late War, and was never heard of again. Helen was the daughter of Dr. Jackson, of Binghamton, N. Y. ; she m. 2d, , Frank A. Wood, of Washington, D. C. ; she d. in Washington in the spring of 1895. Issue : i. Thomas J. ; 2. Henry P., m. Annie F ; they live in Washington. [2]

Henry married Annie F. Stoppard [3]

Children:

Earl T Godwin: born 24 Jan 1881, died 24 Sep 1956 [4]; President of the Press Club: Evening star. [volume], May 04, 1919, Page 12, Image 58 [5]; Engagement: Evening star. [volume], February 18, 1904, Page 5, Image 5 [6]; The Washington times. [volume], April 30, 1905, Woman's Section, Page 4, Image 28 [7]

Harold Parke Godwin: [8]; AKA - "Jack Arnold" : Evening star. [volume], May 04, 1919, Page 12, Image 58 [9]

Francis Wood Godwin was born 20 Oct 1889 at Washington DC, USA. He passed away 5 Aug 1959. [10] . ^[1]

Crosby Stuart Noyes Godwin: born 25 August 1891, died 21 March 1944 [11]

Juror in the trial of Guiteau, President Garfield's assassinator: The Louisiana Democrat. [volume], July 05, 1882, Image 2 [12]; Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume], July 01, 1882, Image 1 [13]

Witness in the Holt Will trial: The evening times. [volume], June 11, 1896, Page 2, Image 2 [14]; Schools: The Washington critic. [volume], January 26, 1889, Image 1 [15]

Republican Party: Evening star. [volume], February 14, 1896, Page 8, Image 3 [16]; Evening star. [volume], February 20, 1896, Page 10, Image 10 [17]

Mason: The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer. [volume], February 15, 1891, Page 7, Image 7 [18]

Committee Work: City Canvassing, Evening star. [volume], January 10, 1894, Page 7, Image 7 [19]; Press for Union Veteran Legion: Evening star. [volume], August 24, 1896, Page 3, Image 3 [20]

• Press Club: The critic., February 25, 1891, Image 4 [21]

Illness: Evening star. [volume], March 27, 1900, Page 7, Image 7 [22]

Harry P Godwin died 30 March 1900: New-York tribune. [volume], March 31, 1900, Page 9, Image 9. [23]

Nephew of Parke Godwin, editor of the New York Evening Post : Evening star. [volume], December 19, 1942, Page A-6, Image 8 [24]

Employment

• Evening star. [volume], May 03, 1897, Page 4, Image 4 [25]
• Evening star. [volume], December 30, 1889, Page 8, Image 8: [26]
• Advertising Manager, Columbia Phonograph Company: Evening star. [volume], March 27, 1900, Page 7, Image 7 [27]

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Elisabeth Godwin, Wednesday, November 12, 2014.

• History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, by Nelson, William [28]

• Marriage Record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:247C-VWB
• Obituaries: Evening star. [volume], April 02, 1900, Page 3, Image 3[29]
  • Evening star. [volume], May 03, 1897, Page 4, Image 4 :[30],
  • The times. [volume], April 03, 1900, Page 3, Image 3: Funeral [31]
  • New-York tribune. [volume], March 31, 1900, Page 9, Image 9: [32]
  • Evening star. [volume], March 27, 1900, Page 7, Image 7 [33]
• 1894 Passport Application [34]

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