Chapter I: Front Matter

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._