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    		• Lukeman, Augustus,
     
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    		• Gorham Manufacturing Company,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Yale, Elisha
     
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    		• Occupation -- Religion
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Gloversville
     
     
    Dr. Elisha Yale Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Lukeman, Augustus, 1871-1935, sculptor.
    Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Dr. Elisha Yale Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated June 15, 1932.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: 8 x 4 x 3 ft.; Base: H. 4 ft. x W. 10 ft. x Diam. 480 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On sculpture, lower left side:) Augustus Lukeman 1932 (On sculpture, back of bronze base:) American Foundry (Around top step of granite base:) ELISHA YALE / PASTOR / EDUCATOR / PREACHER / ... signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A bronze figure of Dr. Elisha Yale striding with his left leg forward, his right hand holding a walking stick, and his left hand holding a Bible against his chest. He wears a short double-breasted jacket with a long cape draped over his shoulders and down his back. The sculpture is installed atop a three-tiered octagonal granite base .
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Yale, Elisha -- Full length
    Occupation -- Religion -- Clergy
    Object -- Written Matter -- Bible
    Dress -- Accessory -- Cane
    Object Type: 
    Sculpture
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Gloversville
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Gloversville, Department of Public Works, Frontage Road, New York Gloversville, 12078
    Located Kingsboro Avenue Park, Kingsboro Avenue, Gloversville, New York
    Remarks: 
    The memorial honors Rev. Elisha Yale, D. D., pastor of the Kingsborough Church from 1804-1853. The sculpture was provided for in the will of Ruth A. Parsons who set aside a fund of $20,000-$30,000 for the erection of memorials to the two leading figures in the early development of Kingsboro, Presbyterian minister Dr. Elisha Yale and schoolmaster Horace Sprague IAS files contain an excerpt from "The Parsons' Memorials to Dr. Elisha Yale, Prof. Horace Sprague, and The Pioneers of Kingsborough," 1932, a photocopy of the dedication booklet for the memorials to both Dr. Elisha Yale and Professor Horace Sprague, and an unidentified newspaper article.
    References: 
    Coryat, Isabel, 2007.
    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 78310007
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