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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: In Search of Dilworth Faber
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Couldn't help myself. Some more scraps:

First a little more detail from Julie Coleman's book:

Commentators at the beginning of this period were apologetic or 
condemnatory; by the end there was no doubt that American English was at 
least as good as British English, and that attempts were being made to 
study it methodically. Even American slang was rising in status:
	After having had his manuscript burned a year ago, Mr. A. 	
	Dilworth Faber, at the suggestion of Sir William Craigie, has 	
	begun anew the work on his American Slang Dictionary, 		
	which he hopes to make the most comprehensive in the field. [footnote: 
‘Gossip of the Book World’, Los Angeles Times (14 Mar. 1937), C8. Faber 
is described as ‘the editor of “The Historical Dictionary of American 
Slang” ’ in a review he published in the same year (A. Dilworth Faber, 
‘Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang’, New York Times (23 May 1937), 99).]

Although this dictionary never appeared, several interesting 
developments were taking place in American slang lexicography, as willbe 
seen in the following chapters:


Dates:

(1909-1976)  ?
https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/dilworth-faber-birth-1909-death-1976/8509366

FABER, DILWORTH was born 15 August 1909, received Social Security number 
052-18-7834 
(ihttps://sortedbyname.com/letter_f/faber/index_14.htmlndicating New 
York) and, Death Master File says, died August 1976

https://sortedbyname.com/letter_f/faber/index_14.html

Someone who knew him:

Brendt Berger (painter):
bill, a friend called and asked me if i knew you. my best friend was 
dilworth faber, nyc street poet. i think he was from shaker heights 
ohio. extremely proud of his ancestor, virginia patriot, james madison 
who after writing a large part of the u s ...

https://www.facebook.com/diaartfoundation/posts/from-the-archives-bill-and-patti-dilworth-long-time-gallery-attendants-for-walte/159581564090080/?locale=hi_IN

[I believe James and Dolly Madison had no children, but JM is now widely 
believed to have fathered children by slaves. Was Dilworth Faber black?]


“Dilworth’s Rib” is a memorial to Berger’s dear friend and poet Dilworth 
Faber, a street poet also known as the Penny Man.
https://www.museumoffriends.org/post/2010-brendt-berger

[Actually he signed himself "A.Dilworth Faber" both for the Partridge 
review and for a 1939 review of a historical cookbook which appeared in 
the _New Republic_]
The Flouring of New England (Review)
A. Dilworth Faber
[of]
The New England Yankee Cook Book, by Imogene B. Wolcott
New Republic, October 4, 1939


[Did he ever live in upstate NY?]

Property, my paternal grandfather Albert “dilworth” Faber son of 
Josephine Gutman Faber and William M Faber 11
(Ithaca Journal, 1958)

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal/52686720/

[If so, he may have had a pipe organ in his home!]

Unknown Builder
1830ca.
Residence: Dilworth Faber
Owego, NY, US

https://pipeorgandatabase.org/instruments/633