Herbert Crowley's Canadian connection! This was somewhat of a mystery for a time, but research is beginning to fill in more details of Crowley's life. The question was raised by an issue of "Cartoons Magazine" from April 1915 (see images one and two, the first page of the article and a close-up of the pertinent detail) which described Crowley as a Canadian artist. Of course, all other information indicated that he was British, moved to New York, then on to Zurich Switzerland. In my previous post, I updated his biography with information from Martin Birnbaum's memoirs which describe Crowley working in "mines and banana plantations in Costa Rica."
Now this all comes together... searching ship's logs from the pertinent times and places, I found some puzzle pieces which put this picture together. The third image is a ship's log from June 8th., 1907, listing one Mr. Herbert E. Crowley, calling or occupation artist, sailing from Liverpool England on the SS Devonian. His destination was Boston, where he was going to "join a relative or friend" -- his brother, C.E. Crowley (Clement Crowley). The complete address of said relative or friend is listed in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The fourth image is a ship's log from July 2nd. 1912 showing Clement E. Crowley, nationality Canadian, calling Engineer, traveling from San Jose, Costa Rica, with a final destination of Toronto, Canada. I've also uncovered Canadian census records that list Clement as a "secularlist", which I found interesting. Clement E. Crowley is also to be found in an 1881 British census record as being two years the senior of the creator of 'The Wiggle-Much', the two of them being ages 7 and 9 in 1881.
SO... I assume that whoever wrote the article for the April 1915 edition of "Cartoons Magazine" had somehow had some knowledge of Herbert Crowley (probably staying with his brother) in Toronto, presumably from the as-yet-unseen "Toronto World." I imagine some of his artwork is perhaps still lingering in this part of the world. More research beckons!
