Word: watseka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribute had been given in all to six persons.* Warren G. Harding officiated in the pageant. In a laudatory speech, Royal Cortissoz said: "Has he [Bacon] not stated in enduring beauty the faith of a nation in an immortal leader?" Henry Bacon was born of New England parents at Watseka, Ill., in 1866. He was graduated from the University of Illinois, completed his studies in Europe by help of the Rotch traveling scholarship. A close friend of the late Stanford White, he was at one time connected with Mc-Kim, Mead & White. In 1897 he started the firm of Brite...
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