. Washington, what to see, and how to see it. A sightseer's guide .. . the oath to President Washington,1789, by Palmer, both bronze. Massachusetts.—John Winthrop, first Governor of Massachusetts, 1630,by R. S. Greenough, and Samuel Adams, an early advocate of AmericanLiberty, by Miss Whitney. Vermont.—Ethan Allen, Captor of Fort Tic-onderoga in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress,by Mead, and Jacob Collamer, a Senator, by Powers. Maine.— WilliamKing, first Governor of Maine, 1820, by Simmons. Pennsylvania.—Rob-ert Fulton, inventor and pioneer in Steam as a motive power
. Washington, what to see, and how to see it. A sightseer's guide .. . the oath to President Washington,1789, by Palmer, both bronze. Massachusetts.—John Winthrop, first Governor of Massachusetts, 1630,by R. S. Greenough, and Samuel Adams, an early advocate of AmericanLiberty, by Miss Whitney. Vermont.—Ethan Allen, Captor of Fort Tic-onderoga in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress,by Mead, and Jacob Collamer, a Senator, by Powers. Maine.— WilliamKing, first Governor of Maine, 1820, by Simmons. Pennsylvania.—Rob-ert Fulton, inventor and pioneer in Steam as a motive power for navigation. THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL. 25 by Roberts, and Gen. Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg^ of the Continental Army,by Miss Nevin. Ohio.—James A. Garfield, President of the U. S., 1881,and William Allen, U- S. Senator, 1837-49, and Governor of Ohio, 1874-6,both by Niehaus. New Jersey.—Richard Stockton, vSigner of the Declara-tion of Independence, 1776, and Philip Kearney, Union General, killed atChantilly, Va., 1862, latter bronze, both by H. K. THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL. Among the other Statues in the Hall are Thomas Jefferson, Author of theDeclaration of Independence, by P. T. David DAngers. Alexander Haviil-ion, first Secretary of the Treasury, Horatio Stone, and Abraham Lincoln,by Miss Vinnie Ream. Over the N. door is Franzonis Clock, representingthe Car of Time. The hall also presents some very remarkable acoustic phenomena, whichwill be explained by persons near by, familiar with the hall.
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