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See also: American sculptor, was See also: born at See also: Salem, Massachusetts, on the 3oth of See also: October 1829
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In 1848 he became an apprentice in a machine See also: shop at Manchester, New Hampshire, and remained there for about ten years
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During the latter See also: part of this See also: time he had done some modelling in See also: clay in his leisure See also: hours, and, having decided to become a sculptor, he spent eight months in See also: Rome and See also: Paris in 1858-59
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Becoming discouraged, he returned to See also: America and obtained employment as a draughtsman in the office of the city surveyor of See also: Chicago; but soon afterwards, owing to the favourable reception of his See also: group of small figures, " The Checker Players," he resumed sculptural See also: work, confining himself to these small figures, known as " See also: Rogers See also: Groups," which had an enormous popular success and were extensively reproduced
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The See also: Civil War in America gave him patriotic themes that increased his vogue and prosperity, and in 1863 he became a See also: National Academician
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His subjects were See also: familiar scenes and incidents of home See also: life known to the masses, and the reproductions of his groups were sold in the most remote districts as well as in the larger cities
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He executed several life-sized statues, including " General See also: John F
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See also: Reynolds " and a seated figure of Lincoln, both in See also: Philadelphia; but it is by his statuettes that he is best remembered, and these were characterized by sentiment and human See also: interest rather than any genuine See also: artistic feeling
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He died at New Haven, See also: Connecticut, on the 27th of See also: July 1904
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The John Rogers home was in New Canaan, Connecticut. It was here that he died in 1904, not New Haven.
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