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Ward 1, Artemus 1727-1800.  
American Revolutionary general who directed Massachusetts troops in the siege of Boston, until George Washington relieved him of the command and drove the British from the city (1776).
Ward 2, Artemus  
See Charles Farrar Browne.
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Ward, Artemus

one of the most popular 19th-century American humorists, whose lecture techniques exercised much influence on such humorists as Mark Twain.

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