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For this story, rather than parse the building, a handsome, rousing success, or the sculpture of Lincoln, designed by Daniel Chester French, I’ll report on my visit to Chesterwood, French’s ...

Sculptor Daniel Chester French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, April 20, 1850, the son of a lawyer who later became a judge and a government official.