Abraham Lincoln : the greatest American . he Indepen-dence of the United States the eighty-seventh.^jff// C^ Cy /By the President. Secretary of State. [165] LINCOLN STATUE When the Lincoln Statue Commissiondecided to permit one full-sized replica ofthe bronze Statue to be cast, it was the act-ive interest of Richard Lloyd Jones, andthe generosity of Thomas E. Brittingham,that made possible this great gift to theUniversity of Wisconsin. ]\Ir. Jones is amember of the Commission, Associate Edi-tor of Colliers Weekly, and alumnus ofthe University. Mr. Brittingham is a resi-dent of Madison, and wit
Abraham Lincoln : the greatest American . he Indepen-dence of the United States the eighty-seventh.^jff// C^ Cy /By the President. Secretary of State. [165] LINCOLN STATUE When the Lincoln Statue Commissiondecided to permit one full-sized replica ofthe bronze Statue to be cast, it was the act-ive interest of Richard Lloyd Jones, andthe generosity of Thomas E. Brittingham,that made possible this great gift to theUniversity of Wisconsin. ]\Ir. Jones is amember of the Commission, Associate Edi-tor of Colliers Weekly, and alumnus ofthe University. Mr. Brittingham is a resi-dent of Madison, and with largeness ofview appreciated the opportunity to servethe University and the State. The folloA^ang strong and beautiful wordpicture of the future influence of theStatue, is from the address of acceptance,by the President of the University of Wis-consin, February 12, 1909. It wall be remembered that a lad namedErnest, created by Hawthornes imagina-tion, growing up in a village set in a broadand deep valley, had his attention called [166]. THE WEINMAN STATUE OF LINCOLN Erected by appropriation of the Congress of the United States, and theLegislature of Kentucky, and unveiled on Decoration Day, 1909,in the Court House Square of Lincolns native town, Hodgen-ville, Kentucky. The only replica of this Statue was pur-chased by Mr. Thomas E. Brittingham of Madison,Wisconsin, and presented to the University ofWisconsin — placed in the Court of Honor,and unveiled the 22d of June, 1909. The Greatest American by his mother to the noble lineaments ofa Great Stone Face on a mighty buttressof one of the surrounding the people there was a traditionthat some time a native of the valley wouldappear with a face like the gigantic onein stone. The growing boy continued hislife among the villagers, and each morninghe looked out upon the strong and benig-nant Great Stone Face, and hoped that hemight some day see the man who was itsimage. The boy reached manhood andmiddle age, doing
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