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    		• Adams, Herbert,
     
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    		• Gorham Manufacturing Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Wheelock, Jerome
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Occupation -- Science
     
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    		• Occupation -- Industry
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Grafton
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Jerome Wheelock Statue, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Adams, Herbert, 1858-1945, sculptor.
    Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Jerome Wheelock Statue, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1906 or 1907. Dedicated 1908
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 10 ft.; Base: approx. 10 x 4 x 4 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Signed and dated:) HERBERT ADAMS/MCMVII (Marked:) GORHAM Co. FOUNDERS (On front of base, in bronze letters:) JEROME WHEELOCK/MECHANIC - INVENTOR/AND MANVFACTVRER/BORN IN GRAFTON 1834/DIED IN WORCESTER 1902/HIS WILL CONTAINED/A GENEROVS GIFT/FOR HIS NATIVE TOWN signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A standing portrait of Jerome Wheelock wearing a hat and carrying his coat over his proper left arm. In his proper right hand he holds a cane. The sculpture is installed on a square base.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Wheelock, Jerome -- Full length
    Dress -- Accessory -- Cane
    Occupation -- Science -- Inventor
    Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Grafton
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Town of Grafton, Grafton Historical Commission, 30 Provincetown Road, Grafton, Massachusetts 01519
    Located Central Square, Grafton, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    Jerome Wheelock was born in Grafton and became a noted mechanical engineer and benefactor of the Town of Grafton. Before the age of thirty, Wheelock had invented the steam engine valve system that revolutionized steam transportation. For this and other inventions, he was awarded prized at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and at the 1878 Paris Exposition. IAS files contain a copy of the Massachusetts Historical Commission Form C - Monuments questionnaire.
    References: 
    Ambler, Louise Todd & Marilyn Gage Hyson, unpublished checklist, 2001-2003.
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1996.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 77000629
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