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John Quincy Adams Ward

WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Ameri can sculptor, born in Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 183o. He studied under Henry K. Brown, of New York, in 1850-1857, and by 1861, when he opened a studio in New York, he had executed busts of Joshua R. Giddings, Alexander H. Stephens, and Hannibal Hamlin, prepared the first sketch for the "Indian Hunter," and made studies among the Indians themselves for the work. In 1863

he became a member of the National Academy of Design (New York), and he was its president in 1872-1873. He died in New York on the 1st of May 191o.