Background
Thorndike, Willis Hale was born on February 8, 1872 in Stockton, California, United States. Son of Albert and Mary F. (Page) Thorndike.
Thorndike, Willis Hale was born on February 8, 1872 in Stockton, California, United States. Son of Albert and Mary F. (Page) Thorndike.
Educational public schools, California. Studied art San Francisco Art School, Art Students’ League, New York, and Academy Julien, Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant, 2 1/2 years.
Artist on San Francisco Chronicle, 1890-1892. On New York Herald, 1896-1897. Cartoonist, Boston Herald, 1897-1898, Philadelphia Press, 1904-1906, Baltimore American, since 1906.
Married Anaconda, Montana, Irma R. Hunsicker, of Philadelphia, January 15, 1902.