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Born February 28, 1876 • Park Ridge • Illinois
Died April 26, 1951 (aged 75) • Chicago • Illinois

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John Carpenter, 1932.
Title page of the piano score for John Alden Carpenter's Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime (1922).
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