Person:Robert Newell (7)

Name^[1]	Robert Henry Newell
Alt Name^[1]^[3]	Orpheus C Kerr
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	13 Dec 1836	New York City, New York, United States
Marriage	24 Sep 1862	to Adelaide C McCord
Death^[1]	Jul 1901	Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

Notes

writer, humorist
one of the favorite humorists of Abraham Lincoln
author of The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers during the civil war
1862-1865 - 4th husband of actress Adah Isaacs Menken (her stage name) ; when their marriage ended, he became brokenhearted, which he remained for the rest of his life.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Robert Henry Newell, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
includes sources, last accessed Jun 2025.

Robert Henry Newell (December 13, 1836 – July 1901) was a 19th-century American humorist. ...
White, James Terry. The National cyclopædia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state. (New York: J.T. White, 1893 - )
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↑ His pseudonym "Orpheus C. Kerr" was a play on the term "office seeker". At the time, political offices were seen as plums, involving relatively little work and regular pay, and were used by political parties as rewards for faithful party workers.