American sculptor, born at Exeter, NH, on the 20th of April 1850; studied in Italy; passed a few years in Washington, and then settled in Florence, where he produced The Minute-Man of Concord, an heroic statue in bronze, which was unveiled at Concord, MA, in 1875. Others of his works are Peace and War, a colossal group now in the custom house at St. Louis, MO; similar groups for the City Hall in Philadelphia and the post office in Boston; Elsie Venner; The May Queen; a life-size statue of Governor Chase of Michigan, for the National Memorial Gallery at Washington; Death and the Sculptor; the colossal Statue of the Republic at Chicago in 1893; and Erin and Her Children, a bronze group for the J. B. O’Reilly monument in Boston.
