Rose
O'Neill
Born in Wilkes-Barre Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
Daughter of William Patrick Henry O'Neill
and Asenath Cecelia Smith
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 69
in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 10 Nov 2018
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Biography
Rose O'Neill is Notable.
"America's First Woman Cartoonist"
Rose was born in 1874 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania but grew up in rural Nebraska. She moved to New York at 19 to advance her illustration career.
She illustrated for several magazines including Truth, Life, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Puck. Her comic strip "The Old Suscriber Calls" in Truth was the first published comic strip by a woman, in September 1896.
She was married to Gray Latham from 1896 to 1901, and Harry Leon Wilson from 1902 to 1907.
In 1909, she created the Kewpie characters, which were a great success. From the sale of Kewpies dolls, she became a millionaire. She continued to draw for Jell-O, Kellogg, and Kodak. She participated in the women's suffrage movement.
She passed away in 1944 [1] and was buried at her home in Bonnie Brook near Walnut Brook, Missouri, in the Ozarks [1]. Today, this site is a museum dedicated to her life and works [2]
In 2001, the US Postal Service released a stamp in her honor, with a short biography: [3]
Rose O’Neill (1874-1944) is most well known for her creation of the Kewpie characters that appeared in Ladies Home Journal during the early 1900’s. In addition to her illustrations for Ladies Home Journal, she also wrote several children’s books that contained the characters. O’Neill also created illustrations for other prominent magazines of the time such as Good Housekeeping and Life, and also was a sculptor, novelist, and poet.
In 2019, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Death Certificate of Rose O'Neill, certificate # 14710, Missouri Death Certificates. Missouri Secretary of State: accessed 11 November 2018.
- ↑ Bonniebrook Home & Museum in Walnut Shade, Missouri.
- ↑ Smithsonian National Postal Museum
- ↑ National Women's Hall of Fame
- Rose O'Neill biography, Illustrator History project at the Norman Rockwell Museum; National Endowment for the Arts.
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