Harry Hershfield
Comic Strip Creator
1885 – 1974
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Who was Harry Hershfield?
Harry Hershfield was an American cartoonist, humor writer and radio personality. A columnist once labeled him "the Jewish Will Rogers".
Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hershfield was the son of Jewish immigrants. He studied in Chicago at the Frank Holmes School of Illustration and the Chicago Art Institute, and his career began at age 14, drawing sports cartoons and his comic strip about a dog, Homeless Hector, for the Chicago Daily News in 1899. He headed West, drawing for the San Francisco Chronicle by 1907.
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- Born
- Oct 13, 1885
Cedar Rapids - Also known as
- Harold Hershfield
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 15, 1974
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on July 23, 2013
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