CHRISTY, HENRY

(1810-65), Eng. archeologist and ethnologist; traveled extensively in Europe and N. America, where he made many discoveries and got together a very fine archzological collection, now in Brit. Museum. (1873), an American illustrator, 6. in Morgan county, Ohio. He came east in 1893, and has ever since then been connected. with various illustrated periodicals. During the Spanish-American War, in 1899, he went to Cuba with the ‘Rough Riders,’ and saw the fighting before Santiago, his letters and illustrations during this experience being published in Scribner’s Magazine, Harper’s Weekly and Collier’s Weekly. Since 1910 he has specialized in illustrating serials in monthly magazines. He has also illustrated three books by James Whitcomb Riley and three of his own. Since 1920 he has also done portrait painting.