John Godfrey Saxe
1816–1887 (age 71)
Poet
About John Godfrey Saxe
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) lived to age 71. They were a poet. Born in Highgate, they died in Albany. They are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in New York.
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