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Caption on image: President, The Century Co. - Vice President, The Scandanavian-American Bank

Cartoons and Caricatures of Seattle Citizens (page 35).

Photographs from which these pen and ink sketches were produced have been furnished principally by James & Bushnell and E.S. Curtis. Engravings by the Art Engraving Company. Published by the Associated Cartoon Service. Artwork by Charles H. Dickson, Jr.

John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) was born in Iowa. In 1876, his family and he moved to Seattle. He studied at the University of Washington and served as errand boy, then clerk, bookkeeper and manager of his father's store, which was destroyed in the Seattle fire of 1889. He traveled to Central America in 1892 to establish business connections, and operated a steamship from 1895 to 1897, which traveled between Central America and Seattle. He later held business interests in several banks and other companies. He was married to Miss Anna Mary Rinehart with whom he had two children.