Harold Knerr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cartoonist
Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1882
Place of Birth: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 08-Jul-1949
Profession: comics artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Harold Knerr
- Harold Hering Knerr (September 4, 1882 – July 8, 1949) was an American comic strip creator, who signed his work H.
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- He was best known as the writer-artist of The Katzenjammer Kids for 35 years. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Harold Knerr's father was Calvin B.
- Knerr, a German physician who had migrated to the United States.
- His mother was Melitta Hering, daughter of Constantine Hering, a pioneer of homeopathy.
- After attending the Episcopal Academy, he studied for two years at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art and then became a newspaper illustrator.
- He recalled, "My first newspaper work was drawing pictures of gravestones atop the oldest graves in a local cemetery for The Philadelphia Record.
- These were paid for at the fee of three dollars each."
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