Owl Club (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1876 Sept. 16-1883.

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Owl Club (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1876 Sept. 16-1883.

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Visitor register of the Owl Club, Chicago (Ill.) and letters of resignation from P. A. Hoyne, Daniel Shepard, and F. B. Wilkie. The visitor register lists the name of each visitor, date, place of residence, and the name of the person who introduced the visitor to the club. Visitors, many of whom were journalists and writers, came from England, Scotland, Ireland, Hungary, France, Alaska, Cuba, and China. The visitor register is signed by Mark Twain (S. L. Clemens, p. 86).

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Shepard, Daniel

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Hoyne, Philip A.

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Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892

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Owl Club (Chicago, Ill.)

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Between 1865 and 1876 various press clubs existed in Chicago for short periods and then faded. The Owl Club at first was not limited to persons associated with newspapers, but it served as the first long-lived press club in Chicago. From the description of Owl Club (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1876 Sept. 16-1883. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713357818 ...