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
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It i ...
. He was a volunteer soldier in the northern army during the Civil War.
He joined the staff of the ''
Detroit Free Press
The ''Detroit Free Press'' is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The Sunday edition is titled the ''Sunday Free Press''. It is sometimes referred to as the Freep (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primari ...
'' 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).
Charles Bertrand Lewis died at his home in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
on August 21, 1924.
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1842 births
1924 deaths
Writers from Ohio
American humorists
Detroit Free Press people
People from Medina County, Ohio
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