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{i} (1850-1931) U.S.A. sculptor who created the seated marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (USA)
born April 20, 1850, Exeter, N.H., U.S. died Oct. 7, 1931, Stockbridge, Mass. U.S. sculptor. He produced his first important commission for the town of Concord, Mass. the famous statue The Minute Man (1874). He was the leading turn-of-the-century American sculptor, with studios in Boston, Concord, Washington, D.C., and New York City. His best-known work, the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 1922. His other notable public monuments include the equestrian statues of Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia (1898) and George Washington in Paris (1900) and sculptures representing Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, in front of the New York City customhouse (1907)