Show SWEET HOME answer to a correspondent iu relation to its author A correspondent from manti oslo will you bo kind enough o answer tho following question through the and oblige several disputants who was the author of homo sweet home when and where was ho born and when and where did he die by referring to applebone App letone encyclopedia clo we dia coTor that john howard payne an american was the author of home sweet ciomo perhaps a short history of him may not bo out of at this time lie was born in new york juno ath 1792 at thirteen years of age while a clerk in a counting house in big native city lie edited the waupun elmr a weekly journal in 1801 while a student in union college he published 25 numbers of a periodical the pastime lie hg debut delut as an actor at park theatre K Y feb as young norval subsequently appearing in boston philadelphia and other places and for nearly 20 years thereafter he pursued a varied course in england as a manager and playwright among his adaptation from alie french batides betides original pieces may be named those of brutus Th ercse or the orphan of geneva and clari the latter piece which was produced as an opera contained the celebrated song home sweet home which alone will preserve laynea name from oblivion the principle character har acter in hia play of charlea Char leg the second was a great favorite with charlca kemble in 1832 payne returned to the united states and in 1841 was appointed american consul to tunis Africa which office he held until the day of his death which occurred on april 1852 the position ho held as consul to wards his later years pyne became very much reduced in circumstances and to use the expression of a bio grapher he was a wanderer in life ho whose songs were sung in every tongue and found an echo in every heart never had a home he died a baranger bt ranger in a foreign landl |