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James M Bagley

James M. Bagley (1837 - 1910) was active/lived in Colorado, Maine.  James Bagley is known for Cartoon, wood engraving, landscape.

The following, submitted September 2004, is from Charles Fredrick whose source is the artist's obitiuary, "The Denver Republic", April 23, 1910.

Civil war veteran and noted cartoonist whose funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon.

Major James M. Bagley, Denver's first cartoonist and wood engraver, died at his home, 342 South Sherman Street, late Thursday afternoon. Maj. Bagley, who came to Denver in 1873 and drew the first cartoons and made the first engravings that were used in Denver newspapers, has been and invalid for the last 18 years, suffering with throat trouble. He has been gradually failing for the last year.

He was well known to most of the early residents of this city, gaining so great a reputation for his work as a cartoonist that he was known as the Thomas Nast of the West. He owned the first engraving shop in Denver and was building up a large business when he was forced to give up active life on account of his failing health.

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