American author; born in New York City, on the 13th of December 1836; engaged in literary pursuits in New York, being on the editorial staff of the New York Mercury (1858–62); of the New York World (1869–74); and editor of Hearth and Home (1874–76). He published, during the Civil War, a series of papers under the name of Orpheus C. Kerr (by which he meant “office-seeker”), which attracted attention and which were collected and published in four volumes as The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers (1862–68). Beside these he published The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems (1864); The Martyr President: A Poem (1865); Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires (1867); Smoked Glass (1868); The Cloven Foot, an adaptation of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870); Versatilities (1871); Studies in Stanzas (1882); There Was Once a Man (1884). See also “Picciola” and “The American Traveler.”
