Rose C. O'Neill

(1874-1944) lived in Battle Creek and Omaha. Illustrator and writer, created first elf-like creature illustration to accompany magazine stories in 1909 that became known as Kewpies, which later became copies on dolls, drawings, and other objects that people collected; she is credited with writing and illustrating more than 5,000 Kewpie stories. Consult New York Times obituary, April 7, 1944, p. 19 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, June 6, 1971, p. E-1 and Notable American Women 1601-1950, Vol 2 (Belnap, 1971) 650-651 and New York Times, June 13, 1976, Sec. 2, pp. 37, 44 and American National Biography, Vol 16 (1999) 733-734.

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