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Townsend, Edward Davis

soldier, author, was born Aug. 22, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He was an adjutant-general of the United States army, at the time of his death on the retired list as brigadier-general. He was chief executive officer of the war department in Washington during the civil war. He was the author of Catechism of the Bible; and Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States. He died May 11, 1893, in Washington, D. C.

TOWNSEND, EDWARD WATERMAN, journalist, author, was born in 1855 in Ohio. He is a journalist of New York city whose studies of Bowery life and dialect have been widely popular. He is the author of Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories; Chimmie Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds; A Daughter of the Tenements, a novel; Near a Whole City Full, a collection of short dramatic stories. In collaboration he has written several plays, including Chimmie Fadden; A Daughter of the Tenements; and The Marquis of Michigan.