Shillaber

_Omnibuses_ also originated in Paris, and were introduced into London in 1827, by an enterprising coach proprietor named Shillaber.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He saw Sam Brannan's palace, "The Bungalow," built by one Shillaber of San Francisco at a cost of from thirty to forty thousand dollars.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) Mark Twain 1872

He saw Sam Brannan's palace, "The Bungalow," built by one Shillaber of San Francisco at a cost of from thirty to forty thousand dollars.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

Shillaber, Benjamin PenhallowLife and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family 1854

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library D. C. Snyder 1864

The two sketches below, featuring Mrs. Partington's nephew Isaac, or Ike, were among the pieces Shillaber collected for The Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family (New York: J.C. Derby, 1854).

Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family 1854

He probably intended the picture of Mrs. P on the last page of Tom Sawyer as both a tribute to Shillaber and an acknowledgment of the kinship between the two aunts and their mischevious nephews.

Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family 1854

Go where she would through the spacious halls, a crowd of eager listeners followed her footsteps, drinking in her instant repartees, which were really superior in wit and appositeness, and, indeed, in the vein of the famous dame's _cacoëthes_, even to the original contribution of Shillaber to the nonsensical literature of the day. "

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

In commenting on the reasons for the broadening and deepening of his humour with the passage of time, Mr. Clemens once remarked to me: "I succeeded in the long run, where Shillaber, Doesticks, and Billings failed, because they never had an ideal higher than that of merely being funny.

Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920

In commenting on the reasons for the broadening and deepening of his humour with the passage of time, Mr. Clemens once remarked to me: “I succeeded in the long run, where Shillaber, Doesticks, and Billings failed, because they never had an ideal higher than that of merely being funny.

Mark Twain Henderson, Archibald 1910

Go where she would through the spacious halls, a crowd of eager listeners followed her footsteps, drinking in her instant repartees, which were really superior in wit and appositeness, and, indeed, in the vein of the famous dame's cacoethes, even to the original contribution of Shillaber to the nonsensical literature of the day. "

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905