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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Thomas Green Fessenden (1771–1837)

Fessenden, Thomas Green. An American who wrote partly under the name “Christopher Caustic”; born in Walpole, NH, April 22, 1771; died in Boston, Nov. 11, 1837. While a Dartmouth undergraduate he wrote a ballad, ‘Jonathan’s Courtship.’ He founded the New England Farmer (1822). Some of his publications were: a satirical poem, ‘Terrible Tractoration’ (1803); ‘The American Clerk’s Companion’ (1815); ‘The Ladies’ Monitor’ (1818); and ‘Laws of Patents for New Inventions’ (1822).