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About George Derby
- George Horatio Derby (April 3, 1823 – May 15, 1861) was an early California humorist.
- He attended West Point with Ulysses S.
- Grant.
- Derby used the pseudonym "John P.
- Squibob" and its variants "John Phoenix" and "Squibob." Derby served as a lieutenant in the U.S.
- Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.
- In his spare time, he wrote humorous anecdotes and burlesques, often under the guise of his pseudonyms.
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