Charles Bertrand Lewis
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| Born | February 15, 1842 Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio |
| Died | August 21, 1924 (aged 82) Brooklyn, New York |
| Pen name | M. Quad |
Charles Bertrand Lewis (February 15, 1842 – August 21, 1924), better known by the pen name M. Quad, was an American journalist and humorist.
Lewis was born at Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio, and attended the Michigan State Agricultural College. He was a volunteer soldier in the northern army during the Civil War.
He joined the staff of the Detroit Free Press in 1869, and became known as a writer of sketches under the pen-name of M. Quad. His accounts of the proceedings of a supposed society of colored people, to which he gave the name of Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club, were very popular. His published works include: Sawed-Off Sketches (1884), Field, Fort and Fleet (1885), Under Fire (1886), and The Lime-Kiln Club (1887).[1][2][3]
Charles Bertrand Lewis died at his home in Brooklyn on August 21, 1924.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ William Harrison De Puy (1896). The University of Literature. J.S. Barcus. pp. 405–408.
- ^ "Lewis, Charles Bertrand". The House of Beadle & Adams and its Dime and Nickel Novels. University of Oklahoma Press. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
- ^ Coyle, William, ed. (1962). Ohio Authors and Their Books: Biographical Data and Selective Bibliographies for Ohio Authors, Native and Resident, 1796-1950. World Publishing Company. p. 383.
- ^ "'M Quad,' Humorist, Dies at Brooklyn Home". Detroit Free Press. August 23, 1924. Retrieved March 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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