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| | Born in Germany on Oct. 19, 1858. Schwenke settled in San Diego in 1885. During the 1920s he worked as an artist; by the Depression his occupation was shoemaker. He died in San Diego on June 19, 1935. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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