| 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. |
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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