Charles Bertrand Lewis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Bertrand Lewis

Americn humorist and journalist

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1842

Place of Birth: Liverpool Township, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1924

Profession: writer, humorist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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 Agricultural College.
He was a volunteer soldier in the northern army during the Civil War.
He joined the staff of the Detroit Free Press 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).