Hugh Doak Rankin

[4] Hugh Copp got an early start as an exhibiting artist; as a teenager, his panel sculpture of "brownies" racing through hurdles was displayed in the children's room of the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

[6] As an adult, Hugh Rankin started making illustrations for newspapers in Ohio and Chicago, before World War I.

Rankin's style was called "strange, imaginative – if almost abstract — art-deco work" by a nostalgic fan many years later.

"[11] He lived with his maternal grandmother Susanna Rankin, his mother's sister, Louisa, and her husband Paul E. Hermes, in Chicago after his mother's death, and later in adulthood in Los Angeles, California, where he was still living at the time of his death in 1956, aged 77 years.

[4] As a World War I veteran, his remains were buried in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.