 This might be a reflection of the attitudes taken by the strong nativist movements active during his young age, among other places in Chicago when he lived there.By the middle of the 1870s he was already gaining a name as a gifted illustrator.Among the many magazines and periodicals which eventually took up his works were the various Harper's publications ("Harper's Bazaar", "Harper's Weekly", and "Harper's Young People"), as well as "Frank Leslie's Weekly", "Century Magazine" and the "Ladies' Home Journal".