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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Houdon, Jean Antoine 1740-1828 (search)
Houdon, Jean Antoine 1740-1828 Sculptor; born in Versailles, France, March 20. 1740; passed ten years at Rome in the study of the antiques. In 1785 he was employed to make a marble statue of Washington for the State of Virginia, which now stands in the rotunda of the State capitol at Richmond. He visited Mount Vernon and made a cast of the living face only, and. after returning to France, modelled the entire full length of the patriot. That original cast is at Mount Vernon It is the true model of Washington's face, and should be the standard portrait. He died in Paris, July 15, 1828. Houdon's mask of Washington.
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Report of the Committee on Necrology. (search)
and tended to the correction and improvement of boys and girls who might otherwise have become criminals. Besides his membership in the Somerville Historical Society, Mr. Snow belonged to John Abbot Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Oasis Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Wonohaquaham Tribe of Red Men. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Truant Officers' Association. He left a widow. Quincy E. Dickerman. (Acknowledgments to the Somerville Journal.) Quincy E. Dickerman was born in Stoughton July 15, 1828. He was educated in the Stoughton schools and the Bridgewater Normal School. Before graduation he had charge of a winter school in the town of Dartmouth. Later he taught at Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard, at Fairhaven, and at Sharon. Then he went to Phillips Andover Academy to fit for college. But he spent only a short time there, for the school committee of Stoughton called him to teach in his home town. Here he continued at work until he came to Boston in 1856. Besides his duties