| Show GEN DEVENS STATUE monument to civil war to be unveiled in worcester mass on july 4 plans for the erection 0 the gen charles devens statue which Is to be placed la front of the county court house in lincoln square at worcester mass are rapidly being completed by the devens statue comm isil july 4 has been selected as the date tor the unveiling ot the statue and its formal transfer from the commission to the county the only reason for a change in the date will ira the non completion of the casting la time for the exercises to take pla e on inde pen dence day the first active move toi the devons statue was the passage ol 01 the act by the legislature on february 18 1902 au theorizing thor izing the devens memorial statue commission to collect aunda from indi and towns in worcester coun ty tor the purpose of erecting a memo rial to the county s soldier statesman jurist in november 1903 the commission accepted the sketch of the complete statue as submitted by the sculptors THE GEN DEVENS STATUE french potter or new york and on october 11 1905 the complete model was accepted by the commission and forwarded to the foundry of the gorham manufacturing company at providence the company expects to be able to turn the casting out of its foundry the latter part of may the pedestal will be made of a mam moth piece of granite on the west side of the pedestal will be an in bearing the record both mill tary and civil of gen devens the south side will bear an inscription with the list of organizations from worce ter county which participated in the war and on the north side will be a list of towns of worcester county and the number of men by each during the war the total subscriptions to the devena statue fund to date are approximately 34 coming from individuals and towns gen charles devens was descended from revolutionary ancestors and was born in charleston mass in 1820 he was a lawyer with a large practice and had held several public offices when the civil war broke out he went to the front as a major and by gal lantry on a number of battlefields be ing wounded several times he was made a major general before hosell ceased he served afterward as commander in chief of the grand army of the republic and also as command r of the military order of the loyal legion of massachusetts he resumed i the practice of his profession after the war and in 1867 was made a superior court judge and in 1873 one of the judges of the supreme court of the bay state president hayes made him attorney general of the united states in 1877 and he served tour year aft erward returning to the bench in mass achu he presided in 1886 at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of harvard university of which he was a graduate in 1838 gen devens died alln 1891 he had a high reputation as a brilliant public er |
