Woodmen of the World - To the Memory of Its Galveston Members, (sculpture).

Woodmen of the World - To the Memory of Its Galveston Members, (sculpture).

Coppini, Pompeo, 1870-1957, sculptor.

Woodmen of the World - To the Memory of Its Galveston Members, (sculpture).

Woodmen's Circle Monument, (sculpture).

Sculpture: bronze; Base: pink or red Texas granite and concrete.

Sculpture: approx. H. 6 ft. 6 in.; Base: approx. 8 ft. x 5 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 6 in.

(On bronze shield-shaped plaque on front of base, raised lettering:) WOODMEN OF THE WORLD/PERISHED MEMBERS./CHAS. J BROCKELMAN C. W. KOTHE/CHAS. A BUSCH R.P. LAMONT/ALEX CADDOU D.M. MALES/GEORGE CALVERT MEYER MIGEL/THOMAS CLARK J.F. ROLL/JOSEPH ELLO HENRY SCHAFER/JOHN ENGELKE RICHARD SCHMIDT/JOHN ENGLISH C.L.SHERWOOD/G.H. FALKENHAGEN T.P. SHERWOOD/J.G. FRANK S.W.TENBUSH/AUGUST E. CLARK J.H. WILLIAMS/WOODMEN CIRCLE/AUGUSTA FAULKENHAGEN/FANNIE JOHNSON (On front of base below plaque, incised lettering: illegible inscription) (On bronze shield-shaped plaque on rear of base, raised lettering:) DUM TACET CLAMAT/ERECTED/BY THE/WOODMEN OF THE WORLD/TO THE MEMORY/OF ITS/GALVESTON MEMBERS/WHO PERISHED/IN THE/TIDAL WAVE OF 1900/MONUMENT COMMITTEE:/COL.B.W.JEWELL/G.F. WOOLEY L.G.BLAINE/P. COPPINI.SCULPTOR/1904-1905 (On rear of base:) Pompeo Coppini signed

General Joseph Cullen Root stands dressed in a vest and knee-length suit coat. His proper left arm is bent at the elbow with hand extended and his proper right hand holds the lapel of his jacket. The sculpture is mounted upon a tapered pink granite base flanked on each side by a tree trunk with sheared limb stumps. The base has a wider, stepped bottom. The sculpture is placed upon a concrete platform with steps at the front and rear.

History -- United States -- Galveston Flood

Disaster -- Flood

Portrait male -- Root, Joseph Cullen -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- General

Outdoor Sculpture -- Texas -- Galveston

Lakeview Cemetery Association, Lakeview Cemetery, 3015 57th Street, Galveston, Texas 77551

The statue depicts Joseph Cullen Root, founder of the Fraternal Order of the Woodmen of the World. It was installed by the Order of the Woodmen in honor of their members who were victims of the Galveston flood of 1900. Members' gravemarkers from 1906-1978 surround the sculpture. IAS files contain a related excerpt from Pompeo Coppini's "From Dawn to Sunset," San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1949, pg. 105.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Texas survey, 1993.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, TX2015, 1989.

Monumental News, Aug. 1905, pg. 541-542.

Monumental News, Aug. 1905, pg. 541.

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Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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