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| | Lester Warren Cornish was born in Massachusetts on April 26, 1859. A major in the U.S. Army, while stationed on the Monterey Peninsula, Cornish studied at the San Francisco Institute of Art in 1911-12. He died of myocarditis in Pacific Grove, CA on Oct. 10, 1917. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
SF Examiner, 10-13-1917 (obit)
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