FRENCH, Daniel Chester, sculptor: h. Exeter, N. H., 20 April 1850. He was the son of the Hon. Henry Flagg French, judge and ex-assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury, who in 1867 moved to Concord, Mass., whence his son attended the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology and Dr. Rummer's lec tures on anatomy in Boston and received some slight tuition in sculpture from John Q. A. Ward. After a year spent in Florence, Italy, with Thomas Ball, he completed a commission from the town of Concord for the well-known statue of 'The Minute Man,' which was un veiled on the centenary of the battle of Con cord, 19 April 1875. From 1876-78 his studio was located in Washington; from 1878-87 in Boston and Concord and after 1887 in New York. His principal works besides 'The Minute Man' of Concord are statues of General Cass, Rufus Choate, John Harvard and Thomas Starr King; 'Dr. Gallaudet and His First Deaf Mute Pupil' • Statue of the Republic; and the Milmore Memorial. Also (Bust of Phillips Brooks) Trinity Church, Boston; 'Gen. Win.
F. Bartlett,' Boston; Public Library bronze doors, Boston;