Robert W. Patten

Military service Patten was a Civil War Veteran. He served with the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry and was discharged July 14, 1864. According to the veteran's home record, he contracted rheumatism in Maryland in 1862, along with a general disability. calling him "'Sport". With his duck sidekick named the "Kid" (who also sometimes sported an umbrella hat), the cartoon Umbrella Man dispensed wit and wisdom along with weather forecasts on the newspaper's front page. Sometimes he reflected the paper's owner's opinion, as on July 20, 1913, when he was drawn leaving town to avoid trouble with the Wobblies.

DOC caricatured himself in this cartoon, with his cartoon figures Sport (the Weatherman) and the Kid (the duck) leaving town, as if scared of the Wobblies.

Books The Umbrella Man was the subject of two books of collected comics and witticisms: The Umbrella Man by Dok. Lowman and Hanford Company, Seattle, Washington, 1911. Sport and the Kid by Hager, J.R. "Dok". Lowman and Hanford Company, Seattle, Washington, 1913.

1911 Cartoon book The Umbrella Man by John "Dok" Hager. Not a collection of previously published artwork, but new comics, made for the book.