. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. 30 KINGS OF TEE PLATFORM AND PULPIT. of the club traveled from London to see him—two at a time—^thathe might be less lonely. His remains were followed to the grave from the rooms of hisfriend, Arthur Sketchley, by a large number of friends and admir-ers, the literati and press of London paying the last tribute ofrespect to their dead brother. The funeral services were conductedby the Eev. M. D. Conway, formerly of Cincinnati, and the coffinwas temporarily placed in a vault, from which it was remov
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. 30 KINGS OF TEE PLATFORM AND PULPIT. of the club traveled from London to see him—two at a time—^thathe might be less lonely. His remains were followed to the grave from the rooms of hisfriend, Arthur Sketchley, by a large number of friends and admir-ers, the literati and press of London paying the last tribute ofrespect to their dead brother. The funeral services were conductedby the Eev. M. D. Conway, formerly of Cincinnati, and the coffinwas temporarily placed in a vault, from which it was removed by hisAmerican friends, and his body now sleeps by the side of his father,Levi Browne, in the quiet cemetery at Waterford, Maine. Uponthe coffin is the simple inscription: CHARLES F. BROWNE, AGED S« TEAMS, Better Known to the World as Artemus Ward.* His English executors were T. W. Eobertson, the playwright,and his friend and companion, E. P. Hingston. BSs literary executorswere Horace Greeley and Eichard H. Stoddard. The humoristleft a will which is now in the vault of the Oxford Cou
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