Hoxie
VINNIE REAM, an Ameri can sculptor; born in Madison, Wis., Sept. 23, 1847; received an academic education; obtained a government clerkship and turned her attention to sculpture; executed busts of Grant, Sherman, and others and a statue of Lincoln for the National Capitol. Her other works include ideal statues of "Sappho"; "The Spirit of the Carnival"; the heroic statue of Farragut, Washington, and in 1911 she was commissioned to execute a statue of Sequoyah, to represent Oklahoma, for the Hall of Statues at the Capitol. She died in 1914.