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Charles Heber Clark papers
Charles Heber Clark, a Philadelphia journalist and author, was born on 11 July 1841 in Berlin, Maryland. The son of William J. Clark, Charles moved to Philadelphia as a teenager where he worked at odd jobs until serving as a Union soldier during the Civil War. After the war, he worked as a writer...
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| Collection: | Charles Heber Clark Papers |
| Collection Number: | 3996 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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Charles Heber Clark, a Philadelphia journalist and author, was born on 11 July 1841 in Berlin, Maryland. The son of William J. Clark, Charles moved to Philadelphia as a teenager where he worked at odd jobs until serving as a Union soldier during the Civil War. After the war, he worked as a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition to his journalistic writing, he wrote humorous novels and sketches under the pen name “Max Adeler.” His first humorous novel, Out of the Hurly Burly; or, Life in an Odd Corner was published in 1874. Others works attributed to him include Professor Baffin’s Adventures (1874), Elbow-room: A Novel Without a Plot (1881); In Happy Hollow (1903), Frictional Electricity (undated), and his autobiography, A Family Memoir, not published until 1995. Charles Heber Clark died on 10 August, 1915 at Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania.
The collection consists of 17 diaries and 125 pages of manuscripts in Charles Heber Clark’s handwriting.
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