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    		• Ellicott, Henry Jackson,
     
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    		• Bureau Brothers,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Spinner, Francis Elias
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Occupation -- Political
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Herkimer
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    General Spinner, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Ellicott, Henry Jackson, 1848-1901, sculptor.
    Bureau Brothers, founder.
    Title: 
    General Spinner, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Cast 1894. Dedicated June 20, 1909.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: gray granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Statue: approx. 8 ft. x 36 in. x 20 in.; Base: approx. 30 x 30 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On the base, front of proper left side:) H. J. ELLICOTT/Scpt. (On base, towards back of the proper right side:) BUREAU BROS/BRONZE FOUNDERS (On front of base, raised letters:) THE FACT THAT/I WAS INSTRUMENTAL/IN INTRODUCING WOMEN TO EMPLOYMENT IN THE/OFFICES OF THE GOVERNMENT/GIVES ME MORE REAL SATISFACTION/THAN ALL THE OTHER DEEDS IN MY LIFE/(Signature of Skinner) (On back of base:) THE STATUE/IS A VISIBLE EXPRESSION OF THE GRATITUDE/OF WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY/AND THEIR FRIENDS (On side of base, raised letters:) 1802-1890 (On other side of base:) ERECTED BY THE/GEN. NICHOLAS HERKIMER CHAPTER/D.A.R/1909 signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A portrait of Spinner dressed in trousers, a knee-length buttoned overcoat, a cape, and a brimmed cap. He stands with his proper right hand tucked into his overcoat at his midriff. His proper left hand rests on an unfurled scroll of paper set atop a small pedestal.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Spinner, Francis Elias -- Full length
    Dress -- Accessory -- Hat
    Occupation -- Political -- U. S. Treasurer
    Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll
    Occupation -- Political -- Congressman
    Occupation -- Monetary -- Banker
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Herkimer
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Village of Herkimer, 120 Green Street, Herkimer, New York 13350
    Located Myers Park, Herkimer, New York
    Remarks: 
    Francis Elias Spinner (1802-1890) was Lincoln's Treasurer of the United States. He also served as major general of the 26th Regiment of the New York State Artillery; in 1854 was elected to Congress, where he served until 1861, when he was appointmed U.S. Treasurer. In 1875, he retired to Jacksonville, Florida and founded the First National Bank. Spinner was instrumental in helping women find employment in the government offices.
    In January 1891, the General Spinner Memorial Association was formed in Washington, D.C. to raise funds and erect a memorial in honor of Francis Spinner. In Oct. 1891, Ellicott presented a model to the committee for their approval. The bronze statue, cast in 1894, was to be installed in front of the Treasury Building, in Washington, D.C. It was never installed there and remained in storage at the Corcoran Gallery until the General Nicholas Herkimer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution petitioned to move the statue to Myers Park (Herkimer, NY), as a companion sculpture to a statue of General Herkimer. The cost of the memorial was $20,000.
    The statue was dedicated in Herkimer on Tuesday, January 29, 1909. Speakers included Rev. H. M. Cox, Senator Warner Miller, and the Hon. A. M. Mills. A poem by John A. Joyce was read.
    IAS files contain related article from Legacy (Herkimer County Historical Society), vol. 8, no. 3-4, 1993, pg. 18-20; and newspaper clipping from The Evening Telegram, March 11, 2002. For further readings, see also: Herkimer Democrat, March 11, 1896.
    Conservation: 
    Treated 2002 July. Coryat Casting Co., Inc. (Rhinebeck, NY). Treatment report on file with conservator and owner.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, NY0061, 1989.
    Monumental News, Oct. 1908; Jan. 1910.
    SOS Conservation Notification Report, 2002.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Legacy (Herkimer County Historical Society), vol. 8, no. 3-4, 1993, pg. 20.
    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 NY000413
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