Goodrich
Goodrich names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Goodrich CASPAR FREDERICK, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CASPAR FREDERICK, an American naval officer; born in Philadelphia in 1847. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1864. He was appointed ensign in 1866. He saw service during the Civil War, and served on several naval vessels from 1865 to 1871, when he again attended the Naval Academy. He commanded a detachment of sailors and marines, landed at Alexandria in 1882 to police the burning city, and during the same year he was naval attaché on the staff of Sir Garnet Wolseley during the Tel-el-Kebir the Greeley relief ship "Alert" to New York. campaign. In 1884 he brought After serving on special duty he was appointed president of the Naval War College in 1897-1898. During the Spanish- American War he commanded the "St. Louis" and "Newark" and the "Iowa." In 1905-1906 he was commander-in-chief of the Pacific squadron, and from 1907 to 1909 he was commandant of the Navy Yard in New York. He was retired in 1909. In 1918-1919 he was commandant of the Naval Unit of Princeton University. From 1914 to 1916 he was president of the Naval History Society.
Goodrich SAMUEL GRISWOLD, pseudonym PETER PARLEY
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL GRISWOLD, pseudonym PETER PARLEY, an American author; born in Ridgefield, Conn., Aug. 19, 1793. He edited the "Token," published in Boston from 1828 till 1842. From 1841 till 1854 he edited "Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine." His "Peter Parley" books won great popularity. Among the 200 volumes published by him are: "The Poetical Works of John Trumbull" (1820); "Tales of Peter Parley About America" (1827); similar books on Europe, Asia, Asia, Africa, and other countries. He died in New York City, May 9, 1860.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote of Caspar Frederick Goodrich in 1921 as a living retired admiral; he died a few years later, in 1925, and his career is now remembered mainly by naval historians tracing the early Naval War College. Samuel Griswold Goodrich's fate is the sharper reversal: the "Peter Parley" books, which Collier's could still call winners of "great popularity," have passed almost entirely out of circulation, surviving as objects of study for historians of children's literature and of American schoolbook publishing rather than as reading for children. Neither man is what a reader now hears in the name: since the mid-20th century "Goodrich" most often means the tire and rubber business founded by Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, whose BFGoodrich brand was bought by Michelin in 1990, or the aerospace supplier Goodrich Corporation, absorbed by United Technologies in 2012.
Written for this edition, 2026.