. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ARTEMUS WARD. BIOGEAPHr AND EEMINISCENCIS. Charles Farrar Browne, better known to the world as Artemus Ward, wasbom at Waterford, Oxford county, Maine, on the 26th of April, 1834, and died ofconsumption at Southampton, England, on Wednesday, the 6th of March, Wards grandfather (Thaddeus) raised five sons in Waterford — Daniel,Malbory, Jabez, Levi and Thaddeus. His father was Levi Browne, who died in1847, after being justice of the peace for many years. His mother, Caroline , d
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ARTEMUS WARD. BIOGEAPHr AND EEMINISCENCIS. Charles Farrar Browne, better known to the world as Artemus Ward, wasbom at Waterford, Oxford county, Maine, on the 26th of April, 1834, and died ofconsumption at Southampton, England, on Wednesday, the 6th of March, Wards grandfather (Thaddeus) raised five sons in Waterford — Daniel,Malbory, Jabez, Levi and Thaddeus. His father was Levi Browne, who died in1847, after being justice of the peace for many years. His mother, Caroline , died in 1878. She was a woman of strong character, and came from goodPuritanic stock. I once asked Artenms about his Puritanic origin, when he replied: • I think we came from Jerusalem, for my fathers name wasLevi, and we had a Moses and a Nathan in the family; but my poorbrothers name was Cyrus; so, perhaps, that makes us Persians. The humorist was full of happy wit even when a boy. Hismother, from whom the writer received several letters, told methat Artemus was out very late one night a
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