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The Writer of Home Sweet Home Resting Place Explored
East Orange, Aug 9 Special Correspondence recounts the life of John Howard Payne author of Home Sweet Home. From Easthampton birth to park stage debut, EUropean triumphs and Tunis consulships shaped a restless career ending with a New York burial and a monument to his memory.
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East Hourton
Sweet Home
William Payne
Sarah Isaacs
Old Park Theater
New York
Atlantic Ocean
Liverpool
Drury Lane Theater
Douglass
Ireland
Paris
London
The
Opera Glass
Brutus
Clamor
Milan
M. Tree
Henry Bishop
Europe
America
United States
Democratic Review
Washington
Tyler
Tunis
Carthage
W. W. Corcoran
City Hall
New York City
Arthur
Kats M. Bostwick