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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD (1830-1910)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD (1830-1910)  ,
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American sculptor, was born in
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Urbana,
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Ohio, on the 29th of
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June 1830 . His
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education was received in the
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village
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schools . He studied under Henry K . Brown, of New York, in 1850-1857, and by 1861, when he opened a studio in New York, he had executed busts of Joshua R . Giddings, Alexander H . Stephens, and Hannibal Hamlin, prepared the first sketch for the "
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Indian Hunter," and made studies among the Indians themselves for the
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work . In 1863 he became a member of the
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National Academy of Design (New York), and he was its president in 1872-1873 . Among his best-known statues are the " Indian Hunter," finished in 1864 (Central Park, New York); Washington, heroic
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size (on the steps of the U.S . Sub-
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Treasury, Wall Street, New York); Henry Ward Beecher (
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Brooklyn); an equestrian statue of General George H . Thomas (Washington); Israel Putnam (
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Hartford); and the seated statue of Ilorace Greeley, the founder of the New York Tribune, in front of the office of that newspaper . In 1896 he was elected president of the newly organized National Sculpture Society (New York) . Unlike his
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fellow-countryman, W .

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Story, he acquired his training, his inspiration and his themes from his own country . He died in New York on the 1st of May 1910 .

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