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Fessenden, Thomas Green

author, poet, was born April 22, 1771, in Walpole, N. H. He was an agricultural writer of Boston who edited the New England Farmer and similar journals, but in earlier life won considerable attention as a satirical poet under the name of Christopher Caustic. He was the author of Country Lovers and the Terrible Tractoration; poems by which he is membered. He published Original Poems; The Ladies' Monitor; American Clerk's Companion; Democracy Unveiled; Pills, Poetical, Political, and Philosophical; and Laws of Patents for New Inventions.

He died Nov. 11, 1837, in Boston, Mass. re-