Timothy Ahearn Memorial, (sculpture).

Timothy Ahearn Memorial, (sculpture).

Lang, Karl F., 1897-1952, sculptor.

Maxwell & Pagano, fabricator.

Timothy Ahearn Memorial, (sculpture).

Corporal Timothy Ahern Monument, (sculpture).

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.

Sculpture: approx. 7 x 2 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 ft. x 5 ft. 5 in. x 3 ft. 5 in.

(Base front:) CORPORAL/TIMOTHY FRANCIS AHEARN/D.S.C./COMPANY C.102.U.S. INFANTRY/TWENTY-SIXTH DIVISION/1898-1925/HE BEST EXEMPLIFIED THE/SPIRIT OF THE ENLISTED MEN/OF THE YANKEE DIVISION. (Left side of base:) WHEN CORPORAL AHEARN ASSUMED/COMMAND OF HIS SHATTERED COMPANY/HE SENT THIS MESSAGE ON THE/ENVELOPE OF A LETTER FROM HIS/MOTHER TO HIS REGIMENTAL/COMMANDER. "HAVE MADE TWO SKELETON/PLATOONS OF FOUR SQUADS APIECE. PVT KEENY IS MADE ACTING FIRST/SARGEANT. AM READY FOR ANY DUTY I AM/CALLED UPON TO PERFORM. AM READY FOR REPLACEMENTS." SIGNED T. AHEARN/CORPORAL COMMANDING COMPANY C

(Rear of base, bronze plaque with raised letters:) ERECTED A.D. MCMXXXVII/BY/NEW HAVEN CHAPTER, YANKEE DIVISION VETERANS ASSOCIATION/AND THE FEDERAL ART PROJECT OF THE/WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION/KARL LAND, SCULPTOR/COMMITTEE (29 names)/POST NO. 47-AMERICAN LEGION/POST NO. 130-AMERICAN LEGION/POST NO. 132-AMERICAN LEGION/POST NO. 86-JEWISH WAR VETERANS/CHAP. NO. 2-DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS.

(Under plaque base back:) ERECTED BY MAXWELL & PAGANO/NEW HAVEN, CONN. (Right side of base:) NEAR VERDUN, FRANCE, ON OCTOBER/27, 1918, AFTER ALL THE OFFICERS AND/SARGEANTS OF HIS COMPANY HAD BE-/COME CASUALTIES, CORPORAL AHEARN/TOOK COMMAND OF THE REMNANTS OF/HIS COMPANY, REORGANIZED IT INTO/A FIGHTING UNIT AND LED HIS MEN/THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THE/DAY WITH GREAT BRAVERY & ABILITY./LATER THE SAME DAY HE RESCUED/A WOUNDED OFFICER IN THE FACE OF HEAVY MACHINE GUN FIRE. HIS/COUNTRY AWARDED HIM THE DISTIN-/GUISHED SERVICE CROSS.

A standing portrait of Timothy Francis Ahearn dressed in a military uniform and wearing a World War I helmet. The figure is writing in a tablet with a pen in his proper right hand. The tablet rests on his proper right leg, which is raised, resting on the upper section of the granite base. His proper left hand steadies the writing tablet.

History -- United States -- World War I

Portrait male -- Ahearn, Timothy Francis -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Dress -- Accessory -- Helmet

Object -- Written Matter

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Administered by City of New Haven, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees, 720 Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06515

Located West River Park, 170 Derby Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Formerly located Route 34, near the Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut ca. 1930s.

Originally the sculpture was erected on Route 34, near the Yale Bowl, which was appropriate, since it was in that area, known as Camp Yale, that Timothy Ahearn and 3,500 members of the Army National Guard, 102nd Infantry Division, left New Haven for active duty in Germany. The sculpture was later moved to West Memorial Park. The sculpture was created as part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project. For more information on the memorial see The W.P.A., Federal Arts Project files at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, CT. Maxwell & Pagano of New Haven, Connecticut, erected the piece.

Treated 2001 August. ConservArt, LLC (New Haven, CT). Treatment report on file with owner.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.

SOS Assessment Award. 1998.

Inventory staff, 2000.

SOS Conservation Treatment Award, 2001.

SOS Conservation Notification Report, 2002.

Office of Cultural Affairs, City of New Haven, 2007.

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