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Charles Patton Dimitry was born on July 31 in Washington, D. C. , United States. His father, Alexander Dimitry, a citizen of New Orleans who spent much of his life in Washington, was a man of considerable literary distinction, and his mother, Mary Powell Mills, was the daughter of Robert Mills, architect of the Washington Monument.
As a boy Charles went to school in Louisiana, and in 1856 he entered Georgetown College, but apparently did not graduate, although he was given the degree of A. M. in 1867.
At the beginning of the Civil War Dimitry was a clerk in New Orleans. He immediately went into the Confederate army, and remained there, in the Army of Tennessee, till 1865. During 1864 he published serially in Richmond a novel, Guilty or Not Guilty. ”
At the concluson of the war he went to New York, where till 1874 he was connected at one time or another with the World, Graphic, News, Star, and Brooklyn Union.
In 1868 he published The House in Balfour Street, a romance with its scenes laid in a Victorian English village. Here he introduced, in dialects which he fancied appropriate to each, a sort of Brontean hero, a French roue, several shop-keepers and house-servants, and many country ladies and gentlemen. The story is concerned with the struggle of the most important of these characters through love and disaster, both of which for a while seem criminal, to final just deserts of happiness.
He wrote also, besides many short stories, three other novels, published in periodicals: “Angela’s Christmas, ” “Gold Dust and Diamonds, ” and “Two Knaves and a Queen”; and he contributed frequently to a number of newspapers, among them, the Alexandria Commercial Advertiser, the New Orleans Bee and the Washington Daily Patriot.
He was employed for short periods in journalistic work in Mobile, Richmond, and Baltimore, and at one time in his life was engrossed in inventing and patenting an ink which would not rust pens.
After reaching middle age he settled down in New Orleans, where he was connected for a long time with the editorial staff of the Picayune. There, writing sometimes as Tobias Guarnerius, Jr. , or as Braddock Field, he prepared for various newspapers a number of articles on local history. His last years were spent in comparative solitude, made heavier by poverty and approaching blindness.
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His wife, Anne Elizabeth Johnson, whom he married in 1871 in Alexandria, Virginia, died in 1880, after the death of their only child.
