author
Charles Martyn
b. 1874
Best known for a substantial 1921 biography of Revolutionary War leader Artemas Ward, this early 20th-century writer worked in both history and food writing. The surviving record is thin, which gives his small body of work an unusually elusive feel.
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Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients
by Charles Martyn
About the author
Charles Martyn was an author born in 1874, a date confirmed in major library and archive records for his books. He is best known for The Life of Artemas Ward, the First Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution, published in New York in 1921, a detailed historical study with bibliographical references that helped preserve the story of a once-prominent Revolutionary figure.
Earlier, Martyn also wrote Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients (1906), showing an interest in food history as well as biography. Taken together, the surviving catalog records suggest a writer with a taste for researched, documentary subjects rather than fiction.
Beyond those publications, readily available reliable sources offer very little confirmed personal information. No clearly verified portrait was found from the sources reviewed, so his public image remains much less documented than his work.