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Browne, Charles Farrar

author, was born April 26, 1834, in Waterford, Maine. He was a very genuine though grotesque humorist, whose satire is invariably good-natured and whose humor is based on shrewd sense. While a printer in the office of The Plaindealer, in Cleveland, he began publishing his series of letters from Artemus Ward, Showman. Later he became known as a popular humorous lecturer, and was lecturing in England with success at the time of his death. He was the author of Artemus Ward: His Book; Artemus Ward Among the Mormons; Artemus Ward in London; Artemus Ward: His Travels; and Artemus Ward's Lecture at Egyptian Hall. He died March 6, 1867, in Southampton, England.