Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan

Thomas "Tad" Aloysius Dorgan was born on 29 April, 1877, at San Francisco, the son of Thomas J. and Anna Dorgan. His father worked as a laundryman and later as a teamster in the Bay Area. Dorgan began working in the mid 1890s as a cartoonist for the San Francisco Bulletin. In 1904 he joined the staff of the New York Evening Journal as a cartoonist ...