Warner

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 550

Warner, CHARLES DUDLEY, American author, was born at Plainfield, Massachusetts, 12th September 1829, graduated in 1851 at Hamilton, and in law at the University of Pennsylvania in 1856, practised in Chicago till 1860, and then settled as an editor at Hartford. In 1884 he became co-editor of Harper's Magazine, to which his papers on the South, on Mexico, and the Great West were contributed. In 1873 he wrote with 'Mark Twain' The Gilded Age; he had then published My Summer in a Garden (1870) and Back-log Studies (1872). Other works are Being a Boy (1877), Washington Irving (1881), Captain John Smith (1881), In the Levant (1893), &c. He died suddenly at Hartford, 20th October 1900.

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