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GEORGE EDWIN BISSELL (1839– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 12 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:EDWIN See also:BISSELL (1839– )  , See also:American sculptor, son of a quarryman and See also:marble-cutter, was See also:born at New See also:Preston, See also:Connecticut, on the 16th of See also:February 1839 . During the See also:Civil See also:War he served as a private in the 23rd Connecticut See also:volunteers in the See also:Department of the Gulf (1862–1863), and on being mustered out became acting assistant paymaster in the See also:South See also:Atlantic See also:squadron . At the See also:close of the war he joined his See also:father in business . He studied the See also:art of See also:sculpture abroad in 1875–1876, and lived much in See also:Paris during the years 1883-1896, with occasional visits to See also:America . Among his more important See also:works are the soldiers' and sailors' See also:monument, and a statue of See also:Colonel Chatfield, at See also:Waterbury, Connecticut; and statues of See also:General See also:Gates at See also:Saratoga, New See also:York, of See also:Chancellor See also:John See also:Watts in Trinity See also:churchyard, New York See also:City; of Colonel See also:Abraham de Peyster in See also:Bowling See also:Green, New York City; of Abraham See also:Lincoln at See also:Edinburgh; of See also:Burns and " Highland See also:Mary," in See also:Ayr, See also:Scotland; of Chancellor See also:James See also:Kent, in the Congressional library, See also:Washington; and of See also:President See also:Arthur in See also:Madison Square, New York City . BISSE%T, or BISSEXTUS (See also:Lat. bis, twice; sextus, See also:sixth), the See also:day intercalated by the See also:Julian See also:calendar in the February of every See also:fourth See also:year to make up the six See also:hours by which the See also:solar year was computed to exceed the year of 365 days . The day was inserted after the 24th of February, i.e. the 6th day before the calends (1st) of See also:March; there was consequently, besides the sextus, or sixth before the calends, the bis-sextus or " second sixth," our 25th of February . In See also:modern usage, with the exception of ecclesiastical calendars, the See also:intercalary day is added for convenience at the end of the See also:month, and years in which February has 29 days are called " bissextile," or leap-years .

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