David Goodman Croly, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Goodman Croly

American journalist

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1829

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1889

Profession: historian, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About David Goodman Croly

  • David Goodman Croly (November 3, 1829 – April 29, 1889) was an American journalist, born in New York City and educated at New York University.
  • He was associated with the Evening Post and the Herald (1854–58), and then became an editor and subsequently the managing editor of the World.
  • He married Jane Cunningham, known as "Jennie June", in 1856.
  • In 1863, during the Civil War, he co-authored the anonymous pamphlet Miscegenation, which tried to discredit the abolitionist movement and the Lincoln Administration by playing on racist fears common among whites.
  • The anonymous author of the pamphlet claimed to be an Abolitionist in favour of promoting the intermarriage of whites and blacks, a taboo practice that at the time was seen as a threat to white supremacy.
  • The pamphlet coined the term miscegenation for the intermixing of races.From 1870 to 1873, Croly published a journal called Modern Thinker which served as a vehicle for the positivist and Spencerian positions of himself and a small circle of colleagues, including John Humphrey Noyes.
  • In 1872, Croly predicted the Panic of 1873, along with the failures of Jay Cooke & Co.
  • and the Northern Pacific Railroad.
  • From 1873 to 1878 he was editor of the Daily Graphic. Croly's published works include Seymour and Blair: Their Lives and Services (1868), about the 19th century politicians Horatio Seymour and Montgomery Blair (which included an appendix containing a "History of Reconstruction"); and a Primer of Positivism (1876).
  • This refers to Comtean positivism as he was a founding figure in the New York City branch of the Church of Humanity and referred to the "faith" as "the only true church." Glimpses of the future : suggestions as to the drift of things (1888) was an early instance of futurology.David Goodman Croly was the father of the writer Herbert Croly, co-founder of The New Republic magazine.

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