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Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", Browne also played in public performances.
Artemas Ward was born at Shrewsbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1727 to Nahum Ward (1684–1754) and Martha (Howe) Ward. [2] He was the sixth of seven children. His father had broad and successful career interests as a sea captain, merchant, land developer, farmer, lawyer and jurist. As a child he attended the common schools and ...
There are 27 historically significant properties in the district, most of which were built before 1850, and are residential. Notable among these is the 1805 Levi Browne House, which was the birthplace of humorist Charles Farrar Browne (1834–67), who wrote under the pen name Artemus Ward. One of the architecturally finer Federal period houses ...
April 26 – Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward), American humorist (died 1867) May 28 – Lavilla Esther Allen, American author, poet and reader (died 1903) July 9 – Jan Neruda, Czech writer (died 1891) August 31 – Esther Pugh, American reformer, editor and publisher (died 1908) September 9 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist ...
April 26 – Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (died 1867) June 22 – William Chester Minor, Ceylonese-born surgeon and lexicographer (died 1920) June 24 – George Arnold, writer and poet (died 1865) June 28 – Samuel Pasco, British-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died 1917)
The girl was taken to Cook Children’s hospital in critical condition. Investigators believe Liyah-Grace was attempting to cross the street from the north side of Sublett Road when she was hit by ...
Charles Manson had a well-known "Manson Family" cult of followers, but his biological family has long flown under the radar.. Before orchestrating the brutal murders of then-pregnant Sharon Tate ...
Artemus Ward (1834–1867), pen name of Charles Farrar Browne, American humor writer; Statue of Artemas Ward, a 1936 statue in Ward Circle, Washington, D.C. SS Artemas Ward, a U.S. Liberty ship used in World War II