Carey Orr

Carey Cassius Orr (January 17, 1890 in Ada, Ohio – May 16, 1967) was an American editorial cartoonist.

In his youth, Orr was a semi-professional baseball pitcher, and he used the money he made from baseball to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

After a $15 a week job at the Chicago Examiner, he was 24 when he began at the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist.

[3] On March 25, 1914, he married Cherry Maud Kindel, and they had two daughters.

[8] In 1966, he donated more than 5400 cartoons to the Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center.

1918 editorial cartoon