[Charles Frederick]. American author, born at Nantucket, MA, 1804; died in Brooklyn, NY, on the 20th of June 1877. He early removed to New York, where for many years he was connected with the press. The Brooklyn Journal, Putnam’s Magazine, New York Times, Evening Mirror, Brooklyn Union and the Independent were papers with which he was successively connected. He was a humorous writer and fond of depicting New York life. He wrote The Adventures of Harry Franco; A Tale of the Great Panic (1839); The Haunted Merchant (1844); and Trippings of Tom Pepper (1847). See also Peter Funk’s Revenge.
