Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . the house someone hurrying past called out to them that the President had beenmurdered. The murder of a President of a great nation is a most terribly tragic thing at well remember how thoroughly awed were all the people I met at the time of the assassinationof Garfield and of McKinley. That the assassin should reach so high appalls even the personwho has no personal tie to that dignitary. So of course I was moved beyond measure at the death of Lincoln. I was prostrate
Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . the house someone hurrying past called out to them that the President had beenmurdered. The murder of a President of a great nation is a most terribly tragic thing at well remember how thoroughly awed were all the people I met at the time of the assassinationof Garfield and of McKinley. That the assassin should reach so high appalls even the personwho has no personal tie to that dignitary. So of course I was moved beyond measure at the death of Lincoln. I was was days before I could pull myself together and realize that the thing had actually think the horror of it may have had the effect of impressing even more vividly upon me thepersonality of the martyred President. The success of the statue that I subsequently madewas attributed to its trueness to the actual Lincoln. My ability to produce it was unquestion-ably due to those half-hours in the quiet of the Presidents office, and to the searing in of theimage by the great tragedy. 60 ?^^-\:..(! Win i. Tlintttf ISpam (From La Follettes Magazine, Madison, Wisconsin, December, 1914.) Htnttx? ISf am l|oxtP. - Vinnie Ream Hoxie, noted asa sculptor, died at her Washington home November still a very young girl in her early teens Lincoln sat for her at the White House. Herstatue of him stands in the rotunda of the National Capitol. Its simplicity and naturalnessmake you feel it is the real Lincoln. Its lifelike lines must always be loved and admired bythe throngs of people who pass it daily. She also made the commanding statue of AdmiralFarragut in Farragut Square, which the Hoxie home overlooks. Many other statues ofdistinguished men were made by her and she created many beautiful imaginative genius included music. She would sit at the harp or piano and play accompanimentswhich she composed to the songs and melodies she sang with strange sweet po
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