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Thomas Green Fessenden (1771–1837)
Fessenden, Thomas Green. An American who wrote partly under the name “Christopher Caustic”; born in Walpole, NH, April 22, 1771; died in Boston, Nov. 11, 1837. While a Dartmouth undergraduate he wrote a ballad, ‘Jonathan’s Courtship.’ He founded the New England Farmer (1822). Some of his publications were: a satirical poem, ‘Terrible Tractoration’ (1803); ‘The American Clerk’s Companion’ (1815); ‘The Ladies’ Monitor’ (1818); and ‘Laws of Patents for New Inventions’ (1822).