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Ward (JOHN QUINCY ADAMS an American)

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, an American sculptor; sculptor; born in Urbana, O., June 29, 1830.

In 1850 he entered the studio of Henry K. Brown, where he remained six years. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he modeled his "Indian Hunter," "The Good Samari tan," Commodore M. C. Perry, with re-' liefs, "The Freedman," and many busts and small works. In 1869 he built a studio in Forty-ninth Street, New York, where he made the "Citizen Soldier," and statues of Shakespeare, General Reynolds, General Washington, General Israel Putnam, an equestrian statue of General Thomas, General Daniel Morgan and Lafayette. He built a larger studio in 1882, where he made the colossal statue of Washington for the New York subtreasury building, a colossal statue of President Garfield, "The Pilgrim," etc. He designed the crowning group of "Victory" in the arch for the Dewey reception in New York in 1899. He was vice-president, and for one term president of the National Academy of Design. He died May 1, 1910.