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Source:
History of Auglaize Co., Ohio -
Vol. II of 2 Volumes
Edited by William J. McMurray
Wapakoneta, Ohio
Historical Publishing Company
Indianapolis
1923
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CAREY
CASSIUS ORR, one of the most widely known cartoonists in
the country, is an Auglaize county man whose interest is his old
home county and particularly in the affairs of the Uniopolis
neighborhood, where he was reared, has never waned. Mr.
Orr was born on Jan. 17, 1890, and is a son of Cassius
Perry and Martha (Rinehart) Orr, both members of the old
families in the neighborhood of Uniopolis. He early
evinced his interest in art work and after completing his
studies in the academy of Fie Arts at Chicago entered upon his
successful career as a cartoonist, his first work being done for
the Chicago Examiner in 1912. In that same year he
went to Nashville, Tenn., and on the Tennesseean
and American was engaged in that city until 1917, when he
became connected with the staff of the Chicago Tribune,
with which he since has been connected. Mr. Orr is
the creator of "The Tiny Tribune" and of "Kernel Cootie."
In 1918 he was awarded the United States government gold metal
for the prize-winning cartoon of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
He is a Republican, a York Rite Mason and a noble of the Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. On Mar. 25,
1914, at Nashville, Tenn., Carey C. Orr was united in
marriage to Cherry Maud Kindel of that city. They
have two daughters, Dorothy Jane and Cherry Sue.
Those in this community who knew Carey Orr as a boy were
not surprised when it became apparent that he had achieved
distinction as a cartoonist, as he had exhibited unusual talent
while yet a small lad, while attending school in this county.
A number of persons in this county have in their possession
drawings which Carey drew when he was a school boy of
tender years which were so clever as to attract general
attention among his friends. To his early childhood
experiences on the farm near Uniopolis Mr Orr attributes
much of the success which ahs attended his after years.
"Farm ideas," he says, "are always popular with the readers of
metropolitan papers and I have at times used bits of actual
scenery around Uniopolis for my cartoons." Mr. Orr's
mother died when he was two years of age and he was reared in
the home of his maternal grandfather, A. P. Rinehart, in
the Uniopolis neighborhood, where he remained until in 1904,
when he accompanied his father to Spokane, Wash. It was in
1911 that he began his art studies in Chicago and it was in the
following year, as set out above, that he entered upon his
definite career as a newspaper artist, his particular field
being the political cartoon. His father, Cassius P. Orr,
a formerly well known timber man of this county, also for some
years prior to his removal to Spokane was proprietor of a
restaurant in Wapakoneta. Mr. Orr did not live with
his father in Wapakoneta but remained with his grandfather on
the farm and attended school in the village of Uniopolis, the
late John W. Howe being his instructor, also "Tipp"
Howe and Miss Cora Kent. His uncle, F. J.
Rinehart, taught him the rudiments of drawing. Bobg
Ewing was his favorite youthful hero and gave him the
incentive to be a baseball pitcher, which he later became,
paying his way through art school with the money he earned as a
pitcher. In a delightfully reminiscent letter Mr. Orr
recalls his skating, fishing and swimming days along the
Auglaize. "Every fall," he says, "I used to
attend the Auglaize county fair at Wapakoneta. In all my
journeying over the world I never was lost but once and that was
at Wapakoneta at the county fair. My idea as a kid was
that Wapakoneta was a tremendous but city and I never think of
it now but that it seems much larger than either Chicago or New
York. The idea I got as a kid has always stuck to me.
Source: History of Auglaize County, Ohio - Vol. II -
Pub. 1923 - Page 660 |
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