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...Gutzon Borglum's son James Lincoln...
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds...
...said: "This memorial. ... I gladly accept on behalf of the U. S. As we look back I think that we would choose the word 'sincerity' as fitting him most of all." Thus was honor done to a dead states man and to a living sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, present in the drizzle with wife, son and daughter. Bryan is the sixth hero whom he has immortalized in Washington.* A chance for him to do a seventh hero ended lately when the House killed Senate Joint Resolution 21, permitting the erection of a Borglum statue to Colonel Robert Ingersoll (TIME...
...honored by the statue authorized by S. J. Res. 21 was no other than Robert Green Ingersoll. Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate it on the centenary of his birth last August. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, commissioned to make the statue, completed in his Texas studio a clay model of the orator, in frock coat with arms akimbo. When cast in bronze the figure will be 12 ft. high, standing upon an 8-ft. marble base. Before that can take place, however, the House must also approve...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State...