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FAXON, Henry W., journalist, born in Buffalo, New York, about 1830; died in Washington, D. C., 11, Sept., 1864. He entered the navy as an apprentice, but left it after two or three years, and after serving as a telegraph clerk in Troy, New York, and then as clerk in a candle factory, became an editor .of the Buffalo " Republic" in 1855. He was afterward on the staff of the Buffalo "Times," and in 1861 became an army correspondent for New York papers. Among his most noted efforts were the " Silver Lake Snake Story" and the " A. P. L. Parin Papers." The snake story, which was the original of the sea serpent tales that have since become familiar, was published in the Buffalo .... Republic," and professed to be a description of a monster seen in Silver Lake, Wyoming County, N. Y.
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