Charles Bertrand Lewis

Charles Bertrand Lewis, better known by the pen name M. Quad, was an American journalist and humorist.
Lewis was born at Liverpool Township, [Medina County, Ohio|Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio], and attended the Michigan State Agricultural College. He was a volunteer soldier in the northern army during the Civil War.
He joined the staff of the Detroit Free Press in 1869, and became known as a writer of sketches under the pen-name of M. Quad. His accounts of the proceedings of a supposed society of colored people, to which he gave the name of Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club, were very popular. His published works include: Sawed-Off Sketches, Field, Fort and Fleet, Under Fire, and The Lime-Kiln Club.
Charles Bertrand Lewis died at his home in Brooklyn on August 21, 1924.