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See also: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
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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
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At the See also:close of the war he joined his See also:father in business
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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
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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: |
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