Background
Pidgin, Charles Felton was born on November 11, 1844 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Benjamin Gorham and Mary Elizabeth (Felton) Pidgin.
Pidgin, Charles Felton was born on November 11, 1844 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Benjamin Gorham and Mary Elizabeth (Felton) Pidgin.
Graduate English High School, Boston, 1863.
Edward Foster Douglas, of Madrid, New York, July 21, 1897. In mercantile business, 1863-1873. Chief clerk, 1873-1903, chief, 1903-1907, Massachusetts Bureau Statistics of Labor.
Author: Practical Statistics, 1888.
Quincy Adams Sawyer (novel), 1900. Blennerhassett (romance), 1901.
Stephen Holton, 1902. The Climax, 1902; The Letter H, 1904.
A Nation’s Idol, 1904.
Little Burr, 1905. Sarah Bernhardt Brown, 1905. The Corsican Lovers, 1905.
The Hidden Manitoba, 1906.
The Toymakers, 1907. Theodosia, The First Gentlewoman of Her Time, 1907. Labor, or, The Money-God, 1908.
The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer, 1909.
Chronicles of Quincy Adams Sawyer, Detective (with J. M. Taylor), 1912. The House of Shame, 1912. The Courtin’, comic opera, 1913.
Libretto grand opera Venusia and Cupidon, 1919.
Invented “visible speech system” for motion pictures, 1917. Home: Melrose, Massachusetts
Married Lizzie Abbott Dane, July 3, 1867 (died 1868). Married second, Lucy Sturtevant Gardner, Doctor of Medicine November 25, 1873 (died 1896).