. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . com-missioned by theRoumanian Govern-ment to execute aportrait bust ofQueen Elizabeth(Carmen Sylva), forwhich he was deco-rated Commander ofthe Royal Order ofBene Merenti, andalso received the(Queens the AmericanArt Association andfrom the Massachu-setts Charitable Mechanic Associa-tion he has receivedgold medals, and theonly medal awardedfor sculpture in theAmerican Section atthe Universal Expo-sition in Paris, in1889, was awardedto him. He mod-
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . com-missioned by theRoumanian Govern-ment to execute aportrait bust ofQueen Elizabeth(Carmen Sylva), forwhich he was deco-rated Commander ofthe Royal Order ofBene Merenti, andalso received the(Queens the AmericanArt Association andfrom the Massachu-setts Charitable Mechanic Associa-tion he has receivedgold medals, and theonly medal awardedfor sculpture in theAmerican Section atthe Universal Expo-sition in Paris, in1889, was awardedto him. He mod-elled for the Drexelsof Philadelphia a life-size figure of Christon the cross. Hehas executed many other works of merit, his rangebeing very extensive. The most recent public workswhich Mr. Kitson has completed are the statue ofAdmiral Farragut, for the city of Boston, and the foun-tain for the Dyer Memorial in Providence. Mr. Kitsonis a member of the Ethnographical Society and of theSociete .\mericaine de France. An artist by predilection,his scope has been enlarged by study and travel, andhis method enriched by worthy HENRY H. KITSON. BOSTON. 173 CARROLL DAVIDSON WRIGHT, United Statescommissioner of labor, and one of the foremoststatisticians of the country, was born in Dunbarton,N. H., July 25, 1840. He was educated in New Hamp-shire and Vermont, and began the study of law, but atthe beginning of the Civil War gave it up to enlist inthe Fourteenth New Hamiishire Regiment, of which hebecame colonel in December, t864. He served asacting assistant adjutant-general under General Sheri-dan, resigning inMarch, 1865, and inOctober of the sameyear was admitted tothe bar of NewHampshire. Beingin ill health, decided upona change of resi-dence, and moved toMassachusetts. Dur-ing 1871-72 he wasa member of theSenate of this State,at which time he se-cured the passage ofa bill to provide forthe establishment ofworkingmens trainsto Boston from thesuburban districts.
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