DANIEL CHESTER CHESTER FRENCH

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ANIEL CHESTER FRENCH, who enlarged the plaster cast of the Sheridan equestrian statue, after the model by John Quincy Adams Ward, is well known in the United States as one of the foremost sculptors of his time. He was born at Exeter, N. H., in 1850, and during his youth attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year and studied under Dr. William Rimmer of Boston, and Thomas Bell, Florence, Italy. From 1876 to 1878 he had a studio in Washington, D. C., and in Boston and Concord, Mass., from 1878 to 1887.

His best known works are the "Minute Men" at Concord, Mass.; statue of General Cass, Capitol, Washington; statue of Rufus Choate, court house, Boston; statue of John Harvard, Cambridge; the Milmore memorial which was awarded the third class medal at the Paris salon, 1892; colossal statue of the Republic at the Chicago Exposition; bronze doors of the Boston public library; statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb. Mr. French has an office at 12 West 8th street, New York city.

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HENRY BACON

ENRY BACON, architect of the pedestal upon which the Sheridan equestrian monument rests, is among

the most eminent in his profession in the United States. He was born in Watseka, Ill., November 28, 1866, and was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1888, after which he traveled in Europe for two years. From 1885 to 1888 he studied in the office of Chamberlin and Whidden, Boston. He married Miss Laura Florence Calvert, of Dardenelles, Turkey, in 1893, and from 1897 to 1903 was a member of the firm of Brite and Bacon, since which time he has practiced alone. He is the designer of the Lincoln memorial at Washington, which cost $2,000,000. Mr. Bacon has an office at 101 Park avenue, New York city.