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Newell (ROBERT HENRY OR- PHEUS C KERR)

ROBERT HENRY ("OR- PHEUS C. KERR"), an American humorist; born in New York City in 1836. He was connected with the New York "Mercury" and "World," and was editor of "Hearth and Home" from 1874 to 1876. Among his works are: "The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers" (1862-1868); "The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems" (1864); "The Cloven Foot," a travesty of Dickens's "Edwin Drood" (1870); "Versatilities" (1871); "There Was Once a Man" (1884). He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in August, 1901.