MASSAGUER 



CONRADO WALTER MASSAGUER 



Artist; editor; manager. 



Conrado Walter Massaguer y Diaz 

 was born in Cardenas, Cuba, on the third 

 of May, 1889. When he was seven years 

 old his parents, to escape Spanish persecu- 

 tion, moved to Mexico taking him and his 

 brother. There he attended school in the 

 Literary Institute of Merida, Yucatan, but 

 soon after moved to the United States 

 where he entered St. John's School, Ossin- 

 ing, N. Y., and later the New York Mili- 

 tary Academy at Cornwall. There in 

 1908 he began drawing caricatures for the 

 school paper. In 1907 he was drawing for 

 the Yacatecan paper La Campana and 

 was soon contributing to other papers in 

 Yucatan, The Diario Yucateco, Artes y 

 Letras, La Arcadia, and Frou Frou. 



In 1908 his family returned to Cuba and 



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