Frederick Swartwout Cozzens [SEP] date of death
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde.
Biography.
Cozzens was born in New York City on 5 March 1818. In early life, he became a wine merchant. Beginning in 1854, he was the proprietor and editor of "Cozzens' Wine Press", a magazine on the culture of wine. In its issues, which he ran until 1861, he particularly promoted American wines.
Cozzens had previously contributed humorous poems and
Stoddard, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, James Fenimore Cooper, Fitz Hugh Ludlow and Frederick Swartwout Cozzens. "The Knickerbocker" was one of the earliest publications of its type to pay its contributing writers.
Morris Phillips (1834–1904), for a short period beginning in 1862, owned and edited the magazine. He later had been associated with the poet, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), as associate editor of the "New York Home Journal" from September 1854, until Willis' death