Charles Chandler Reese

Charles Chandler Reese (May 1862-July 3, 1936), was a well-known American illustrator, newspaper cartoonist, and artist who worked for newspapers in Boston, Massachusetts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New York City.

[1] [2] His sketches on the field of action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War appeared in the New York World.

His two-time comic strip, Speaking of Ancestors, appeared in the Philadelphia North American in February 1904.

He was the first artist to have a picture reproduced as a double-truck, or two-page, illustration in a newspaper.

He later remarried by 1920 to a woman named Eloise and had a daughter, also named Eloise or Elsie, and was living in Staten Island, New York, and working as an artist for a press company, according to U.S. census data.