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._ INTRODUCTION.