 John White
was an artist and illustrator
responsible for the earliest visual record by an
Englishman of the flora, fauna and people of the
New World. He was one of the colonizers of
Roanoke Island, and his granddaughter, Virginia
Dare, was the first English child to be born in
the New World. |
 John
Barton Gruelle was the creator of
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. According to the
most commonly told story, Raggedy Ann began as a
gift from Gruelle to his sick daughter. After her
passing, he turned the stories he had told his
daughter about Raggedy Ann's various adventures
into drawn and written form. The first volume of Raggedy
Ann Stories was published in 1918; Raggedy
Andy premiered in 1920; and the comic strip
"Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy"
began appearing in 1922. |
