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Louise Virginia Cassidy 1882 - 1969

Louise Virginia Cassidy of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota was born on January 10, 1882 in Barry, Pike County, Illinois United States, and died at age 87 years old on February 5, 1969 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN.

Louise Virginia Cassidy

Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota 55440

January 10, 1882

Barry, Pike County, Illinois, 62312, United States

February 5, 1969

Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States

Female

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Louise Virginia Cassidy's History: 1882 - 1969

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01/10

1882

Birthday

January 10, 1882

Birthdate

Barry, Pike County, Illinois 62312, United States

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Ethnicity & Family History

Louise's parent, John Lewis Cassidy and Alice Evaline Angle Cassidy, were first cousins. John's mother and Alice's father were brother and sister. John and Alice met and married in Barry Illinois, home of Alice's family. The family had come there from Lynchburg Virginia before the Civil War. Louise was born in Barry and the family moved to Minneapolis before she was ten years old. Alice's mother, Margaret Crandall Angle, was a New England Crandall and like the rest of her family, was raised as a Seventh Day Baptist, in Rensselaer County, New York. A group of interrelated families of the same faith, including Margaret's, relocated to Barry, Illinois after the opening of the Erie Canal.
Professional Career

Louise Cassidy was an artist, a lifelong painter, and taught at Art Instruction Schools (AIS) for her entire working life. Art Instruction Schools was a correspondence school famous for its "Draw Me!" matchbooks. The Schools' most famous alum and then instructor was Charles Schulz, who remained a friend of Louise Cassidy's for her life. Two of her paintings from the 1930's are in the collection of the Weisman Art Museum on the University of Minnesota campus. (See
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) One of Louise's colleagues at AIS was Jim Sasseville, a cartoonist who was, for a time, a 'ghost' cartoonist for Charles Schulz. One of Sasseville' own strips was "Aunty Climax." ""Aunty Climax," produced in early 1957 -- just prior to Jim’s ghost work for Dell comics -- was a single-panel gag strip that starred a feisty little old lady who was far sharper than most people assumed. She was based on Louise Cassidy, an AIS colleague who also was the landlady for the building where Jim briefly lived with Charles Cuddy. Jim produced a few dozen "Aunty Climax" panels." -- from the website Five Cents Please at
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1969

Death

February 5, 1969

Death date

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Cause of death

Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota United States
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