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

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

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