Back in 1912 Herbert Conner of Amboy was President of the Lee County Farmer's Club. In the 1920s he would become secretary of the Lee County Farm Bureau and the first artist hired to create drawings for the IAA Record.
This first cartoon illustrated how other occupations were put on the road to prosperity through organization and encouraged farmers to do the same by joining Farm Bureau. Herbert drew his cartoons for the IAA Record on the dining room table after a hard day's work on the farm.
Mr. Conner was also an accomplished painter with pieces in several public libraries along with four works illustrating Illinois history in Sherman Hall on the campus of Western Illinois University.
Below is a 1928 untitled oil painting from the Pankhurst Memorial Library in his hometown of Amboy.
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