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William Montgomery Clemens
1860–1931
A prolific American writer, editor, and genealogist, he moved easily between literary biography and painstaking family-history research. He is especially remembered for books on figures like Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, along with a long run of genealogical compilations and magazines.
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Famous funny fellows : Brief biographical sketches of American humorists
by William Montgomery Clemens
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1860, William Montgomery Clemens built a career that blended journalism, authorship, and genealogy. Reference sources describe him as an American author and genealogist, and record that he worked for newspapers including the Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Los Angeles Tribune before continuing his writing and research for decades.
His books show a wide range of interests. He wrote short biographical studies such as Mark Twain; His Life and Work, A Ken of Kipling, and Benjamin Franklin; A Biographical Sketch, while also producing large amounts of genealogical material, including marriage-record compilations and family magazines devoted to American lineages such as the Lincoln, Miller, Montgomery, and Turner families.
Clemens died in 1931. No suitable verified portrait image was found in the sources checked during this search, so a profile image is not included here.