Declan Howard Kane was born in 1883 to confidante Alexis Pavlovich, after divorcing from Armand Dumont. The mother's affair with Edgar struck ethnic high society at the time before that.
His much older brother, Mack Quartermaine, died at 8 months of asthma in 1870. His older sister, Jenna, lived a terrible life in the streets until dying at 6 years old in 1879.
Nonetheless, he survived a boring, blandly regimental childhood. He looked a lot like his mother. He was also bullied by fellow children at school, and his mother was also wicked to him, spanking him all day. He was also spanked by the school teachers as well, since life to him was RUBBISH to the point of a near suicide attempt.
Declan was jobless until he became a member of the burns family minion brigade. From then on, he met and married Debbie Swanson. Both had a rivalry-prone relationship leading to the birth of Theo and Drew Howard Duff Quartermaine, two identical twins, in 1916. Theo and Andrew got abandoned by their parents before they divorced, but the somewhat younger Drew survived into adoption by Melvin Dane and Theresa Chillari.
He became a Moe's Beer Pub operator for much of his life and then died of a heart condition in 1950.