"A Pioneer American Humorist" essay by Louis Blake Duff
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Title
"A Pioneer American Humorist" essay by Louis Blake Duff
Subject
Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)
Description
Scanned copy of the essay "A Pioneer American Humorist" by Louis Blake Duff.
Taken from a binder collecting some of his writings called "Louis Blake Duff, Occasional essays, Addresses."
Here Louis discusses the importance of the humorist Artemus Ward (1834–1867) who is considered the first stand-up comedian and influenced Mark Twain.
In his 1959 obituary Duff was described as an “Eminent historian, inimitable humorist, and an after dinner speaker par excellence... a man of many parts. His career embraced the callings of county school teacher, newspaperman and publisher, bibliophile and financier."
Taken from a binder collecting some of his writings called "Louis Blake Duff, Occasional essays, Addresses."
Here Louis discusses the importance of the humorist Artemus Ward (1834–1867) who is considered the first stand-up comedian and influenced Mark Twain.
In his 1959 obituary Duff was described as an “Eminent historian, inimitable humorist, and an after dinner speaker par excellence... a man of many parts. His career embraced the callings of county school teacher, newspaperman and publisher, bibliophile and financier."
Creator
Louis Blake Duff
Source
Welland Public Library Local History Collection
Date
Undated
Rights
Public domain
Relation
Format
Typed pages
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
LHC 819.452 Duf
Collection
Citation
Louis Blake Duff, “"A Pioneer American Humorist" essay by Louis Blake Duff,” Welland Public Library, accessed May 20, 2026, https://wellandlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/9486.
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