FAMOUS
FUNNY FELLOWS
BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF AMERICAN HUMORISTS
BY
WILL M. CLEMENS
CLEVELAND, OHIO
WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS
1882
Copyright, 1882.
By Will M. Clemens.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| 1. | Frontispiece | |
| [2.] | Introduction | 7 |
| [3.] | Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain”) | 11 |
| [4.] | Charles Farrar Browne (“Artemus Ward”) | 24 |
| [5.] | Charles Heber Clark (“Max Adeler”) | 34 |
| [6.] | Charles B. Lewis (“M. Quad”) | 41 |
| [7.] | Henry W. Shaw (“Josh Billings”) | 49 |
| [8.] | Jay Charlton Goldsmith (“The P. I. Man”) | 58 |
| [9.] | William Tappan Thompson (“Major Jones”) | 63 |
| [10.] | Melville D. Landon (“Eli Perkins”) | 69 |
| [11.] | Charles Follen Adams (“Yawcob Strauss”) | 74 |
| [12.] | Seba Smith (“Major Jack Downing”) | 79 |
| [13.] | Will W. Clark (“Gillhooley”) | 84 |
| [14.] | Irwin Russell | 89 |
| [15.] | John H. Williams (“B. Dadd”) | 94 |
| [16.] | James M. Bailey (“Danbury News Man”) | 100 |
| [17.] | Charles H. Smith (“Bill Arp”) | 104 |
| [18.] | A. Miner Griswold (“Fat Contributor”) | 113 |
| [19.] | Bill Nye | 117 |
| [20.] | Joseph C. Neal (“Charcoal Sketcher”) | 123 |
| [21.] | George H. Derby (“John Phœnix”) | 130 |
| [22.] | George W. Peck | 134 |
| [23.] | Alexander Edwin Sweet | 138 |
| [24.] | Samuel W. Small (“Old Si”) | 143 |
| [25.] | Charles Hoyt | 146 |
| [26.] | Henry Clay Lukens (“Erratic Enrique”) | 150 |
| [27.] | William A. Wilkins (“Hiram Green, Esq.”) | 154 |
| [28.] | Charles H. Harris (“Carl Pretzel”) | 161 |
| [29.] | Joel Chandler Harris (“Uncle Remus”) | 165 |
| [30.] | David Ross Locke (“Petroleum V. Nasby”) | 170 |
| [31.] | Robert Jones Burdette (“The Hawkeye Man”) | 175 |
| [32.] | Joe C. Aby (“Hoffenstein”) | 183 |
| [33.] | Edward E. Edwards | 189 |
| [34.] | Eugene Field | 193 |
| [35.] | Stanley Huntley (“Spoopendyke”) | 200 |
| [36.] | Some Other Funny Fellows | 207 |
FAMOUS FUNNY FELLOWS.