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LUKENS, Henry Clay, journalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 August, 1838. He was educated at the public schools of his native city, and as early as 1855 contributed to daily and weekly newspapers. In 1858 he was part owner and editor of an illustrated monthly called " The School Journal." During the civil war he saw active service. From 1877 till 1884 he was an associate editor of the " New York Daily News," and he is now (1888) managing editor and one of the publishers of" The Journalist," New York. He has written under the pen-name of " Erratic Enrique," which he first signed to letters from Uruguay in 1874-'5. He has published "The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems" (New York, 1865);" Lean Nora," a travesty of Burger's "Lenore" (Philadelphia, 1870) ; "Story of the Types " (New Haven, 1881) ; and "Jets and Flashes" (New York, 1883). He is now (1888) compiling "Records of the New York Press Club."
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