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    Charles Grand DeFeo was born June 9, 1891 in New Castle, Delaware, just south of Wilmington. His parents were of Italian ancestry.

    At age sixteen DeFeo apprenticed with Howard Pyle, and then went on to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art.

    He moved to New York City in 1912 and worked at an advertising agency, while attending night classes at the Art Students League.

    DeFeo's first freelance assignments were interior story illustrations for Cosmopolitan, Liberty, Today's Woman, and McCall's Magazine.

    He sold cover illustrations to Field & Stream.

    On June 5, 191, during The Great War, he registered with the selective service.

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    He was recorded to have been five-foot-three, of medium build with black hair. He served overseas as a Sargeant with the Army Service Corps in the "Renting, Requisitioning and Claims Service." He was honorably discharged six months after Armistice Day.

    On November 24, 1924 Charles DeFeo married Bessie Slade Sainsbury.

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