Cassidy, Gerald

Ira Dymond [Diamond] Gerald Cassidy (he later changed it to Gerald Cassidy) was born in Covington, Kentucky on November 10, 1869. Some biographers adopt a different date and point to Cincinnati as his birthplace, where in fact he was raised. He studied under Frank Duveneck at the old Mechanic's Institute, where he was awarded his first prize in drawing at the age of twelve.

In 1899, faced with a life expectancy of six months because of tuberculosis, he was sent to New Mexico, later moving to Denver where he concentrated on lithography.

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