Bio:George Randolph Chester

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Note that IMDb has the author born one year later in Knox County, Ohio. --Dirk P Broer 11:28, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
From 'WINSOR MCCAY, GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER, AND THE TALE OF THE JUNGLE IMPS' by Jenny E. Robb:
Herbert Corey, writing in Cosmopolitan (May 1911), reported that an interviewer once asked Chester where he was born and received the response, “I really don‟t care. Do you prefer any particular city?,” before claiming Richmond, Indiana. Chester‟s obituary in the Cincinnati Enquirer (February 27, 1924) lists his birth place as Cincinnati, but the U.S. Census records of 1900 and 1910 indicate that it was Kentucky. In 1869, Kentucky did not require birth records to be collected or recorded on either a state or county level, so that claim is impossible to verify. The 1920 Census lists his birthplace as Ohio, but that of his mother as Kentucky.