[Mortimer Thompson]. American humorist, born at Riga, NY, on the 2nd of September 1832. He was educated at the University of Michigan, but left before graduating and went traveling with a theatrical company; went to New York; wrote some humorous letters for the Detroit Advertiser; secured employment on the New York papers; wrote several volumes of humorous articles which had a wide circulation at the time; and was a popular lecturer. He took the pen-name “Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.,” and wrote Doesticks—What He Says (1855); History and Records of the Elephant Club (1857); and Nothing to Say (1857). He died in New York on the 25th of June 1875.
