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Maine humorist, Charles Farrar Browne, of Waterford, who used the pen name of Artemus Ward, wrote stories that were favorites of President Abraham Lincoln's.

Charles Farrar Browne (of Waterford) is the real name of Lincoln's favorite humor writer, Artemus Ward.

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