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'''Helen E.Elna Hokinson''' ([[June 29]], [[1893]] – [[November 1]], [[1949]]) was an American [[cartoonist]] and a staff cartoonist for ''[[The New Yorker]]''.
 
She was born in [[Mendota, Illinois]], the daughter of Adolph Hokinson, a farm machinery salesman, and Mary Hokinson, the daughter of Phineas Wilcox, the "Carpenter Orator". She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (now known as the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]]), and worked as a freelance fashion illustrator in [[Chicago]] for department stores such as [[Marshall Fields]].