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Show t Images of Abraham Lincoln r "IS ! : vAj Iff , i ff W , - ,,?A M a4 lff4i feyi ! ?' ) 1 ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ',ts T t'-ITH the coming of February 12 I II I and the celebration of Lincoln's ' I i H b'rthJny 'n more than half of tk WlA I Ule Btates of tno Union and with Its I the obsorvance of tne annlver- r-ji I Sary la vnrlous rorras through-W through-W I I Ut the country- America will V Li T ,iave aml'le reason for remem- ' VWvY berlng the name and fame of b," j rj one of her greatest sons. But 1 1 s&tF there is another form of remem-o remem-o V'fc brance of Abraham Lincoln J nhich serves to recall him to his fellow-Amerl- fans in every part of the country, not on just ;le one day of the year, but on every day. . SI'J We, as a people, have elevated Lincoln to a b? pedestal, in the spiritual sense, a pedestal of re love and honor and reverence. So from many a ,!, pedestal, In the physical sense, does the bronze ;ro r stone ,Iunge ot Lincoln gaze down at the people who delight thus to honor him. While it j,'" vould be idle to argue as to who was the great-jj? great-jj? st American, If the number of statues of hlra .(j J that have been erected is any criterion, then it seems certain that Lincoln Is that man. For these images of Lincoln, portraying him In j I .all the varied phases of his career, are to be found in 18 states of the Union, from Massachu-f Massachu-f setts to Oregon and from Minnesota to Kentucky, f as well as in the District of Columbia. Proof ii that he has become a world-figure lios in the fact that England has two statues of him and Scot- iwirt lnnd one' 0f thoSe in t,lis cou"try- Illinois, the state which gave him to the nation, has the f, largest number twelve. Curiously enough, Ken-)i0.. Ken-)i0.. tucky, the state of his birth, lias only three fewer than New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, none of which have any such spe-cial spe-cial connection with his life. Indiana, where Lincoln lived as a boy, from his seventh to his twenty-first year, has only two and both of these u "were erected very recently. One of the two Indiana statues is especially .significant. Among the many images of Lincoln 'J .are representatives of him as the railsplitter, the a"-" militia captain, the lawyer, the congressman, the circuit rider, the debater, the candidate for Pres-ldent, Pres-ldent, the President-elect, the President, the Emancipator and the' orator. All of them show sim"1 11m In his early manhood and his maturity, and M -connected with the erection of virtually all of JL them was some element of public co-operation. But it remained for private enterprise to fur--i. l rish a new sculpture portrait of Lincoln and In 1 1932 the Lincoln National Life Insurance com--. ( pany unveiled in the plaza between the two -wings of Its building In Fort Wayne, Ind., a heroic bronze statue of "Lincoln, the Hoosier J'Jg Touth," the work of a leading American sculptor, Paul Manship. But this private enterprise has ;otr7 done more in the establishment of the Lincoln LINCOLN, THE PRESIDENT Statue by Gutzon Borglum, In Newark, N. J. fonso Victor Lewis. Located In the business section sec-tion of Spokane. Dedicated in 1930. Another Lincoln statue by the same sculptor which was dedicated In 1918 stands In Tacoma. WISCONSIN: Lincoln, the President, by George B. Ganlere. Located in Burlington. Dedicated In 1913. Lincoln, the President, by Charles H. Nie-haus. Nie-haus. Replica of the Niehaus statue In Muskegon, Muske-gon, Mich. Located In Kenosha. Dedicated In 1909. Lincoln, the President, by Adolph A. Weinman. Wein-man. Eeplica of the Weinman statue in Hodgen-vllle, Hodgen-vllle, Ky. Located in Madison. Dedicated in 1909. Long as Is this list it Is not a complete one, In that It Includes only statues of bronze. Outstanding Out-standing among the stone images of Lincoln Is andcu; irTTw...i-nnixUt 1 blotrie j"1 bowels- -s. l Let NR f ickhei Yas - I'ttas, - L ' t aid: 1 tM ; f Ki.3 hi " 1 J - 11 f" i my riss r , ,1 j Jj m f s ' xmncis if ' ' $ j fJ "11111 1(1 , 1 ' jl --"it 'prise n, ' . , ' ---i:v; 'ri Toll f if-. ' " 1 chins'11 4 . iv Boothia! I , , v v, -;i J fvV-Vv' Sprmgneia. Dedicated In 1874. Lincoln, the Orator, by W. Granville Hastings. Has-tings. Replica of the Hastings statue In Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Located in Bunker Hill. Dedicated in 1904. Lincoln, the Captain, by Leonard Crunelle. Located on the site of the old Dixon blockhouse In Dixon. Dedicated in 1930. Lincoln, the Debater, by Leonard Crunelle located In Taykor park in Freeport. Dedicated In 1929. Lincoln, the Circuit Rider, by Lorado Taft. Located In Carle park in Urbana. Dedicated in 1927. INDIANA: Lincoln, the Hoosier Youth, by Paul Manship. Located In the plaza of the Lincoln National Life Insurance company building in Fort Wayne. Dedicated in 1932. Lincoln, the President, by Charles Keck. Located Lo-cated In front of the court house at Wabash. Dedicated in 1932. IDAHO: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Alfonso Pelzer. Replica of the Pelzer statue at Lincoln, N. J. Located in front of Lincoln hall at the Idaho Soldiers' home, Boise. Dedicated February Febru-ary 12, 1915. IOWA: Lincoln, the Orator, by W. Granville Hastings. Replica of the Hastings statue in Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. Located before the Green county court house in Jefferson. Dedicated in 1918. Lincoln, the Orator, by George E. Ganlere. Located In front of the high school In Webster City. Dedicated in 1913. KANSAS: Lincoln, the President, by Robert Merrill Gage. Located on the statehouse grounds, Topeka. Dedicated February 12, 1918. KENTUCKY: Lincoln, the President, by Adolph A. Weinman. Located in the rotunda of the statehouse at Frankfort. Dedicated in 1911. Lincoln, the President, by Adolph A. Weinman. Wein-man. Located at Hodgenville. Dedicated In 1909. Lincoln, the Candidate, by George Gray Barnard. Replica of the Barnard statue in Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. Located In front of the public library in Louisville. Dedicated in 1922. MASSACHUSETTS: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Thomas Ball. Replica of the Ball statue In Washington, D. C. Located In Park square In Boston. Dedicated in 1879. MICHIGAN: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Alfonso Al-fonso Pelzer. Replica of the Pelzer statue at Lincoln, N. J. Located in Detroit. Dedicated In 1919. Lincoln, the President, by Charles H. Niehaus. Nie-haus. Located in the public square In Muskegon. Dedicated in 1900. MINNESOTA: Lincoln, the Congressman, by Max Bachman. Located in the G. A. R. circle of the Victory Memorial drive In Minneapolis. Dedicated Ded-icated in 1930. NEBRASKA: Lincoln, the Orator, by Daniel Chester French. Located on the state capltol grounds at Lincoln. Dedicated in 1922. Lincoln, the Lawyer, by Franz Zelezny. Located Lo-cated on the high school lawn In Omaha. Dedicated Dedi-cated in 1907. NEW JERSEY: Lincoln, the President, by Francis Edwin Elwell. Located in East Orange. Dedicated In 1911. Lincoln, the Statesman, by James Earle Fraser. Located In the plaza at the entrance to West Side park In Jersey City. Dedicated In 1931. Lincoln, the President, by Gutzon Borglum. Located on the plaza before the Essex county court house In Newark. Dedicated In 1911. NEW YORK: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Henry KIrke Brown. Located In Prospect park, Brooklyn. Dedicated in 1869. Lincoln, the Orator, by Henry KIrke Brown. Located In Union square, New York. Dedicated In 1870. Lincoln, the Orator, by Leonard W. Volk. Located Lo-cated In Rochester. Dedicated in 1892. OHIO: Lincoln, the Candidate, by George Gray Barnard. Located In Lytle park. Cincinnati. Dedicated Ded-icated In 1917. Lincoln, the Orator, by W. Granville Hastings. Hast-ings. Located on the grounds of the Avondale school In Cincinnati. Dedicated in 1902. Lincoln, the Orator, by Max Kallsh. Located In front of the Administration building of the school board. Dedicated In 1931. OREGON: Lincoln, the President, by George F Waters. Located in the park In front of the Masonic temple in Portland. Dedicated In 1928. PENNSYLVANIA: Lincoln, the Orator, by J. Otto Schwelzer. Located In a niche on the side of the Pennsylvania state memorial at Gettysburg. Dedicated In 1917. Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Alfonso Pelzer. Replica of the Pelzer statue In Lincoln, N. J. Located In Winklnsburg. Dedicated In 1916. ' SCOTLAND: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by George E. Bissell. Located in the Carlton burial cround In Edinburgh. Dedicated in 1S93. WASHINGTON: Lincoln, the President, by Al- rtfiiiiiiiiiii; mmm UMHf r v AMgJJ. -nrrrr TT'i jss. A FIRST LINCOLN STATUE Made by Lott Flannery, it was unveiled In 1868 fllpC! 8nd stands In front of the District of Columbia ,JW C0Urt hous9 ln Washington. 1cfS! Rational Life foundation, under the direction of iffere"'- Dr- Lus A. Warren, a Lincoln scholar, and 'es. a'ng wlth the unveiling of the new Lincoln KiB&i tatue thl3 foundation issued an important piece icaeiJ! ' Lincolnlana, a book bearing the title of - ."Heroic Statues in Bronze of Abraham Lincoln," by Franklin B. Mead. ss5! This compilation, Illustrated with photographs, i V f ows there have been erected no less than liy J 54 such statues and gives interesting data con-1J con-1J j rnlng the location, dates of dedication, names l j f the sculptors, facts about their careers, etc. A i "cm this source the following tabulation of Lln-ln Lln-ln statues In bronze, listing them In the alpha-"etlcl alpha-"etlcl order of states and countries ln which I I wey are located, Is condensed : eH " CAL-IFORNIA: Lincoln, the President, by Haig 4 atlgian. Located in front of the city hall In A 11 n FrancIsco's civic center. Dedicated Febru-J& Febru-J& 1 rJ 12, 1913. ,t DlsTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Lincoln, the k wanclpator, by Thomas Ball. Located in Lln-coln Lln-coln park, Washington, D. C. Dedicated Tn 1S76. L ENGLAND: Lincoln, the President, replica of p St, Gaudens statue in Lincoln park, Chicago. Seated in front of Westminster Abbey. Oedl-J Oedl-J Cated in 1920. Lincoln, the Candidate, by George Gray Bar- i ar3- Hepllca of the Barnard statue ln Cincln-Loc&ted Cincln-Loc&ted in Piatt Field park In Manchester, j beaten ln 1919. ., Bjib ILLINOlS: Lincoln, the President, by Au-T Au-T J OMtUS St' Gnudens. Located, ln Lincoln park, ulcRo. Dedicated in 18S7. jt50 L Lincoln, the Railsplitter, by Charles J. Mulll-? Mulll-? ' Ai ' IT; Located in Garfield park, Chicago. Dedlcat-tfrfi Dedlcat-tfrfi i d ln 1911. t1ER,' . J'lncoln, the Emancipator, by Larkin Gold-h Gold-h Mead. Located on the Lincoln tomb, ABRAHAM LINCOLN Statu by Vlnnle Ream In the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. the magnificent figure, created by Daniel Chester French, which helps so much to make the Lincoln Lin-coln Memorial In Washington the splendid and awe-inspiring edifice that It Is. Then there is also ln Washington the first statue of Lincoln ever made. Lott Flannery was the sculptor and It was unveiled April 16, 1863, Just a little less than three years after Lincoln's assassination. Washington also has another famous Lincoln statue which stands In the rotunda of the Capltol. Cap-ltol. It was made by Vinnle Ream, a twenty-two-year-old girl from Wisconsin who went to Washington Wash-ington to study art and took a position as a copyist copy-ist ln the Post Office department at $000 a year to support herself and her father. Clark Mills, the sculptor who made the famous "rocking horse statue" of Andrew Jackson which stands near the White House, discovered her talent and be came her Instructor ln modeling. C by Western Newspaper Union. |