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Name

Rogers, William Allen

Dates & places of birth and death

Born, 1854; Springfield, OH
Died, 1931; Washington, DC

Nationality

American

Occupation

illustrator

Notes

He studied at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Wittenberg College, but never graduated. Rogers taught himself to draw and began submitting political cartoons to Midwestern newspapers in his teens. At the age of fourteen, his first cartoons appeared in a Dayton, Ohio-based newspaper, to which Rogers' mother had earlier submitted a selection of his sketches.

Publications

Harper's Weekly, New York Herald
Life Magazine, Puck, The Century Magazine, and St. Nicholas Magazine
Washington Post, Retired 1926

Places of residence

Ohio
New York, NY

Role

Artist

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