Search >> Watson, Henry Cood (1818-1875)

Editor, Journalist, Poet, Music Critic, Composer.

Henry Cood Watson arrived in New York City in 1841 and immediately began working as a music critic for the New World. In 1845 he co-founded the Broadway Journal with Charles F. Briggs and Edgar Allan Poe. In an obituary of George G. Clapp, Watson is described as one of Henry Clapp’s associates at Pfaff’s when it was “a famous resort back in the fifties” (“Died in Bowery Lodgings” 3). Watson also worked for Horace Greeley at the Tribune from 1863 to 1867 (Howard, “Henry Cood Watson”). He was not only a critic of music, but a composer of it as well; he published numerous songs throughout his life and occasionally lectured about various aspects of music.

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"Died in Bowery Lodgings: Sad Ending of the Career of George G. Clapp." New York Times. 10 Apr. 1893: 3. [more about this work]

Henry Cood was one of Henry Clapp's associates at Pfaff's when it was "a famous resort back in the fifties." [pages: 3]

Howard, John Tasker. "Henry Cood Watson." Dictionary of American Biography. Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2006. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC. [more about this work]

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume VI, Sunderland-Zurita. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. [more about this work]

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