Person:Charles Mcauley (1)

1900 he was a cartoonist; 1910, a newpaper cartoonist; 1920, a motion picture cartoonist; and 1930, a newspaper cartoonist. In 1900 he lived in Philadelphia, 1910 in Manhattan, 1920 in Los Angeles, and 1930 in Brooklyn, NY. He changed the spelling of his name from McCauley to Macauley.

To obtain some of his novels or to see examples of his art, do an internet search for Charles Raymond Macauley.

Charlie became a famous illustrator in NY. As a youngster he and cousin Charles Hoover sold crayon drawings. Source: Around Town Canton Repository, no date.

Obituary

CARTOONIST WHO GOT START IN CANTON DIES -- Charles R. McCauley Succumbs to Pneumonia --
  Charles R. McCauley, who started on the road to international fame as a cartoonist with The Repository 25 years ago, died in New York City of pneumonia Saturday.  He was 54 years old.(error)
   His pencil sketching won him fame throughout the world, but at one time it cost him his job.  This was when, as a 19-year-old bookkeeper for a Canton firm, he drew a caricature of the company's president on his ledger.
   His next job found him entering the newspaper field with The Repository, advancing to star jobs on Cleveland, Philadelphia and finally New York papers.
   It was Mr. McCauley who created the first picture of President Theodore Roosevelt "treading softly but carrying a big stick.
 Source: Canton Repository Sunday, November 25, 1934, pg 10.

McAuley, Charles Raymond (1871-1934). Political cartoonist, author, and illustrator, born in Canton (Stark), March 29, 1871, a son of John K. Mcauley. In 1891, while working in Canton as an artist and photoengraver and studying law, he won a cartoon contest offered by the Cleveland Press, and over the next four years, his drawings appeared in several Cleveland newpapers, including the Leader, the World, and the Plain Dealer. McAuley, who later changed the spelling of his name to "Macauley," moved to New York City about 1893 and began a forty-year newspaper career, based in New York and Philadelphia. His last cartoon appeared in the New York Daily Mirror on November 19, 1934, five days before his death."

News Article with Picture

C.R. MACAULEY, 63, CARTOONIST, DEAD -- Created 'Big Stick' Drawings During Regime of President Theodore Roosevelt. -- Pulitzer Prize Winner -- Author of Several Novels and Screen Plays--Former Head of Newspaper Club. --

  Charles Raymond Macauley, the newspaper cartoonist who created the "Big Stick" drawings during the Theodore Roosevelt regime, died yesterday morning in St. Vincent's Hospital after an illness of only a few days.  The causes of death were pneumonia, a cardiac malady and low blood pressure.  He was 63 years old.
  His last cartoons were published in The New York Daily Mirror on Nov. 17 and 19.  The former entitled "Public Friend No. 1," was in support of the Red Cross campaign.  The last depicted the NRA eagle going into retirement with bowed head and bearing the legend, "I did MY Part."
   For forty years Mr. Macauley's cartoons had appeared in leading newspapers and periodicals in New York and Philadlphia, but for three years previous to his coming East he had drawn cartoons for newspapers in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio.
   Mr. Macauley won the Pulitzer Prize for the best cartoon in 1929.  It appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle under the title "Paying for a Dead Horse."

In Literary Work Five Years.

  From 1901 to 1904 he was engaged in literary work and wrote and illustrated "Fantasmaland."  He had been a free lance cartoonist for several years, but from 1904 until 1914 his cartoons appeared daily in the New York Morning World.  He was editorial cartoonist for The Brooklyn Eagle for two years and for the past three years had been staff cartoonist for The Daily Mirror.
  The Macauley cartoons, familiar to thousands in this country, were impressively robust and topical.  His innate sense of justice caused him though a Republican, to actively support Alfred E. Smith in the Presidency campaign in 1928 because of the religious issue raised in the Southern States.
   Besides a number of novels which he wrote and illustrated, Mr. Macauley wrote several photoplays.  His written works, besides "Fantasmaland," were "The Red Tavern," "Whom the Gods Would Destroy," "Keeping the Faith," "The Man Across the Street" and "The Optimistic Spectacles."
    Soon after the United States entered the World War he contributed a series of cartoons depicting American's spirit in the war, published in The New York Globe.  When President Wilson was informed of this he wrote the following letter to Mr. Macauley:
   I am deeply interested to learn of your new work on a series of cartoons to exemplify American's spirit in the war, and I bid you godspeed in the enterprise.  I know that the finest spirit and the most practiced execution will go into the work.  Cordially yours, Woodrow Wilson.

Political Cartoons Well Known.

   Among Mr. Macauley's earlier successes were his "The May of Bryanism" series in 1904.  In the 1912 campaign he pictured Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft as "the Gold Dust Twins."  In local politics one of his most famous series was the "Ball and Chain" cartoons.  The ball was Charles F. Murphy, and it was chained to the leg of McCall, the Tammany candidate.
  Mr. Macauley was born at Canon, Ohio, on March 29, 1871, the son of John K. and Abbie Burry Mccauley.  He went to public schools in his home town but devoted more time to sketching his teachers than to study.  When he was 20, he won the first prize of $50 which The Cleveland Press had offered for cartoons.
   In turn he was political cartoonist for The Cleveland World, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland Leader, and in 1904 he moved to New York, where he contributed cartoons to dailies and other publications during the following five years.  From 1899 to 1901 he was cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and then decided to take up literary work.
   Walt McDougall, veteran cartoonist, said of Macauley that he was "a heaven-inspired thirty-third degree master cartoonist."
   He married three times.  His first wife, whom he married in 1893, was Miss Clara Hatter.  They had one daughter, Clara.  He married Miss Emma Worms in 1897.  In 1914 he married Miss Edythe Belmont Lott, who survives.  Mr. and Mrs. Macauley lived at the Hotel Chelsea, 222 West Twenty-third Street.
   Mr. Mccauley was at one time president of the New York Newspaper Club.  He was also a member of the Authors Club.

Source: New York Times Saturday, November 24, 1934.

Canton Repository paper sunday Nov. 25 1934 pg 10

1. ↑ Federal Census. (Nat'l Archives)
   1900 for month/year.
2. ↑ Obituary
   [IT:New York Times:IT] Saturday, November 24, 1934.

   With his parents, brother and sister.

3. ↑ Canton Repository, Sunday November 25, 1934, in Obituary.
4. ↑ [IT:New York Times:IT] Saturday, November 24, 1934, in News Article, Item Info: News Article.
5. ↑ New York City Death Index.
   Thru Italian Genealogical Group, certificate #25659.
6. ↑ Cemetery Records.
7. ↑ California Biographical Index Cards.

   Includes birth date/place and parents names.