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1. ROCKCK_190105_005.JPG: Evelyn Y. Davis had died on November 4, 2018 and been buried here afterward. However, she had planned her grave years before (the main text on the stone was apparently carved before 1994) pretty much as a bugle call to her greatness. From https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/evelyn-y-davis-gravestone : Evelyn Y. Davis's Gravestone Washington, D.C. A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States. Near the front gates of Rock Creek Cemetery (one of Washington D.C.’s oldest cemeteries, founded in 1719) you can find the grave of Evelyn Y. Davis. An eight-foot pink granite tombstone, flanked by two smaller structures, creates a memorial commemorating the notorious Holocaust-survivor-turned-corporate-gadfly. Davis was born in Amsterdam in 1929 to a wealthy family. Both her parents had Jewish ancestry. When she was 13, she and her family were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp, where they remained until they were liberated by Russian troops in 1945. Davis moved to the United States with her father, who ultimately gave her her start in corporate shareholding. She made a name for herself as a shareholder activist hell-bent on rattling top CEOs until they bent to her whim. CEOs treated her with a blend of disdain, caution, and a touch of respect. She held shares in nearly 80 industries and was well-known for her unapologetically brash antics. Though she was supposedly determined to level the playing field among shareholders and corporate executives, she was also largely motivated by her own self-indulgent quest for fame and fortune. Some shareholder activists condemned Davis’ actions and viewed her outlandish persona as detrimental to their common cause. She commented about CEO’s physical appearances, and wasn’t shy about remarking when someone needed to lose weight or complementing the attractiveness of men she fancied. She was also known to cause scenes at some shareholder meetings. In one, she stripped down to a bathing suit and paraded around the room with an American flag. She showed up to another wearing hotpants. Davis also created a publication called HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS in 1965. She charged nearly $500 per subscription and marketed the newsletter to CEOs, billing it as an insider scoop. But in reality, the oddly-punctuated publication was filled with pictures of her with high-stake power players, bits of gossip, some obscure travel advice, and weird tidbits about her personal life. Davis was, admittedly, a hard-to-please woman. She often refused to deal with anyone who wasn’t the CEO, viewing any subordinate company executives as beneath her. She also took issue with women in power. According to an article in Vanity Fair, in one issue of HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS, Davis wrote about a “FEMALE who came from the GTE side of the company” who was “JEALOUS of a woman who is FAMOUS and GLAMOROUS, unlike herself.” The notorious gadfly decided to erect her own postmortem monument in 1981 to celebrate her successes. She used the tombstone to list her resume, divorces (there are four, two of which were etched in at later dates), and the fact that she never had children. One of the accompanying stones contains a quote that clearly sums up her philosophy on life: “Power is greater than love, and I did not get where I am by standing in line nor by being shy.” One of her ex-husbands is buried at the site beneath a nearby grave. The only accomplishment listed on his gravestone is that he was one of Davis’ former husbands. Update: Davis died November 4, 2018, in Washington, DC.
2. ROCKCK_190105_016.JPG: Evelyn Y. Davis August 16, 1929 Daughter of the prominent neurologist Herman H. DeJong M.D. and Marianna DeJong Sister of Col. Rudolph H. DeJong M.D. Attended Western Maryland College and George Washington Univ. Two Divorces -- No Children [Inserted] Third Divorce Took Place in 1994 Editor and Publisher of Highlights and Lowlights 1965 -- [Inserted] A fourth divorce took place in 2006. Defender of shareholder rights at many stockholder meetings nationally
3. ROCKCK_190105_020.JPG: Power is greater than love, and I did not get where I am by standing in line, nor by being shy. A.T. and W.S. Forever
4. ROCKCK_190105_021.JPG: Recognized at White House press conferences by several presidents since 1978
5. ROCKCK_190105_024.JPG: Walter O. Froh Hr. 1927-2002 In loving memory former husband of Evelyn Y. Davis
6. ROCKCK_190105_025.JPG: Evelyn Y. Davis 1929 - Daughter of Herman H. DeJong, M.D. and Marianne DeJong-Witteboom
7. ROCKCK_190105_029.JPG: Herman H. DeJong M.D. 1895-1956 Father of 1928 Rudolph H. DeJong 2011 1929 Evelyn Y. Davis
8. ROCKCK_190105_035.JPG: Evelyn Y. Davis Queen of the Corporate Jungle 1929 - Forever
9. ROCKCK_190105_039.JPG: E.Y.D.
10. ROCKCK_190105_079.JPG: Martha C. Freeman 1925 - 2015
11. ROCKCK_190105_083.JPG: Mankiewicz Frank Fabian May 16, 1924 Oct. 23, 2014 Patricia O'Brien May 25, 1936
12. ROCKCK_190105_089.JPG: For Our Mother [You Were The] First Heart to Ever Love Us First Voice We Ever Heard... Its Soothing Music [Sweet] Before We Understand [Understood] a Word. First Face We Learned to Recognize, First Smile We Ever Saw, Eyes Looking Into Ours with Love and Pride and Awe. First Hands to Guide Our Wobbly Steps or Swing Us To and Fro, First Arms to Hold Us Safe and Snug yet Leave Us Room to Grow. First Confidante to Listen to the Things We Had to Say, First Friend to Know Our Hopes and Dreams... First in Our Hearts Now and Always
13. ROCKCK_190115_014.JPG: The Simon Memorial by Brenda Putnam Brenda Putnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brenda Putnam (June 3, 1890 – October 18, 1975) was a noted American sculptor, teacher and author. Biography She was the daughter of Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe. Her older sister Shirley and she were granddaughters of publisher George Palmer Putnam. She attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., where she first was taught to sculpt. She also trained as a classical pianist, and toured with violinist Edith Rubel and cellist Marie Roemaet as the Edith Rubel Trio. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1905–07, under Mary E. Moore, William McGregor Paxton and Bela Pratt; then for three years at the Art Students League of New York under James Earle Fraser. She also studied at the Corcoran Museum Art School in Washington, D.C. Early works Early in her career, Putnam was noted for her busts of children and for garden and fountain figures. She exhibited an overtly sensual piece at the National Academy of Design in 1915, Charmides [Dialogue], a nude woman and man asleep together, which was described as "Rodin-like." To mark the grave of her close friend, pianist Anne Simon, she created a profound work: the Simon Memorial (1917) -- a nude male angel ecstatically rising from the clouds. Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, is a supremely beautiful spot wherein are erected many striking memorials. Within recent years there has grown to be another place of pilgrimage -- the memorial to Mrs. Otto Torney Simon. The triumph of her passing from "life to life" ... is symbolized in the Simon Memorial wrought by Brenda Putnam. Until recently, I had never heard of this winged figure interpreted by one who knows the full significance of the statue. [T]his angel with wide flung hands and upward gaze symbolizes liberation of our faculties and our abilities, the enfranchisement of the soul released by the kindly gift of Death." She modeled a series of busts of musicians, including Metropolitan Opera conductor Artur Bodanzky, Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, British pianist Harold Bauer, and Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. Her bust of Spanish cellist Pablo Casals was highly praised: When playing, he always closes his eyes, tilts his head a little to the side, and seemingly loses himself in the magic of his music. It is this characteristic pose, with eyes closed, that Brenda Putnam has captured perfectly. This portrait bust, which one can sincerely say is magnificently done, is in the Museum of the Hispanic Society, New York, and a replica is in Spain. Her Sea Horse Sundial (1922) – a winged cherub joyfully riding a seahorse hobby-horse (while the toy's stick casts its shadow on the sundial) – was widely praised, and received awards from the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and elsewhere. She also had a success with her life-size, three-quarter-length, bas relief portrait of William Dean Howells (1926), for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. About 1920, sculptor Anna Hyatt and Putnam rented an apartment and studio at 49 West 12th Street, Manhattan. Hyatt married millionaire Archer Milton Huntington in 1923 – their wedding took place at the studio – and the Huntingtons became great patrons of the arts. In 1931 they founded Brookgreen Gardens, a vast sculpture garden in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. A more modern aesthetic Putnam grew dissatisfied with conventional academic sculpture. Her desire to pursue "a more modern aesthetic" brought her to Italy in 1927, where she studied under Libero Andreotti, and later under Alexander Archipenko in New York City. She collaborated with architect Paul Philippe Cret on the Art Deco Puck Fountain (1930–1932), for the west garden of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Inscribed below her Figure of Puck is the elf's famous line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "What fooles these mortals be." The marble sculpture, damaged by acid rain and vandalism, was removed in 2001, restored, and placed inside the library. It was used to cast an aluminum replica that was placed atop the fountain in 2002. She exhibited three works as part of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She created bas relief murals for two U.S. post offices under the Works Progress Administration. Her fountain figure, Crest of the Wave (1939), a larger-than-life male nude swimming atop a stylized wave, made its debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Putnam seriously injured her arm in an industrial accident during World War II. She gave up creating large-scale works and concentrated on busts and smaller pieces. In 1942, she created the 26th issue of the Society of Medalists. She was commissioned to create the Admiral Ernest Joseph King Congressional Gold Medal (1945–46), awarded by a Special Act of Congress, March 22, 1946, for Admiral King's distinguished leadership of U.S. Naval Forces in World War II. She created three bas relief portrait busts (1949–50) for the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. Her last completed sculpture was the Bust of Susan B. Anthony (1952) for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Putnam had made the stylistic transition from Academic to Art Deco, but she was no fan of post-war Modernism. In 1952 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its intention to expand its holdings of contemporary sculpture. On behalf of the conservative National Sculpture Society (of which she was a fellow), Putnam vehemently advocated that The Met purchase realist works. Awards and honors Putnam exhibited at the 1911 International Exhibition of Art and History in Rome. She exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design beginning in 1911, where Sea Horse Sundial won the 1922 Barnett Prize, and Mid-Summer won the 1935 Waltrous Gold Medal. She exhibited at the National Sculpture Society's exhibitions, including 1916, 1923, 1929, and 1940. Water-Lily Baby received an Honorable Mention at the 1917 Art Institute of Chicago annual exhibition. She exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1910 and 1944, and won the 1923 Widener Gold Medal for Sea Horse Sundial. She won the 1923 Prize for Sculpture from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors for [add work]. Fountain for a Formal Garden [The Pigeon Girl?] won the 1924 Avery Prize from the Architectural League of New York. She was elected an associate member of the National Academy in 1934, and an academician in 1936. She was elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in [year], and designed them a 7-sided Art Deco medal in 1941 when they changed their name to the National Association of Women Artists. She was elected to the National Sculpture Society in 1919, served as its secretary, 1933-1936, and later was elected a fellow of the society. Teacher and author Putnam had a 30-year career teaching at various institutions and privately. She incorporated that experience into her book, The Sculptor's Way: A Guide to Modelling and Sculpture, first published in 1939. It is still considered a classic on the subject and was in print as recently as 2003. She also was the author of Animal X-Rays: A Skeleton Key to Comparative Anatomy (New York: G.P. Putnams's Sons, 1947). Among her students were Elfriede Abbe, Laura Gilpin, Ethel Painter Hood, Beatrice Gilman Proske, Lilian Swann Saarinen, Marion Sanford, and Katharine Lane Weems. Death and legacy Putnam never married, but maintained long friendships with a number of her students. She retired to Wilton, Connecticut in the early 1950s. She moved to Concord, New Hampshire in 1971, where she died in 1975. Works by her are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums. Brookgreen Gardens holds several of her works. The Brenda Putnam Papers are at Syracuse University. The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds a collection of photographs of her works.
14. ROCKCK_190115_033.JPG: Adams Memorial (Saint-Gaudens) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., featuring a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The shrouded figure is seated against a granite block which forms one side of a hexagonal plot, designed by architect Stanford White. Across a small light-toned granite plaza, a comfortable stone bench invites visitors to rest and meditate. The whole is sheltered by a close screen of dense conifers, more dense and uniform in 2015 than in the photograph to the right. History Erected in 1891, the monument was commissioned by author/historian Henry Adams (a member of the Adams political family) as a memorial to his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams. Marian Adams, suffering from depression, had died by suicide through the ingestion of potassium cyanide, which she otherwise used to develop photographs. Adams advised Saint-Gaudens to contemplate iconic images from Buddhist devotional art. One such subject, Kannon (also known as Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva of compassion), is frequently depicted as a seated figure draped in cloth. In particular, a painting of Kannon by Kanō Motonobu, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and shown to Saint-Gaudens by John LaFarge, is said to have played a major role in influencing the conception and design of this sculpture. Henry Adams, who traveled to Japan with LaFarge ostensibly to find inspiration for this memorial, particularly wanted elements of serenely immovable Buddhist human figures to be contrasted with the waterfall-like robe associated with Kannon. In addition to the still and flowing elements, the monument's dualism includes male-female fusion in the figure itself and blends Asian and European ideals of figure. These checks to the standard heroic figure combine to make a "countermonument" for a woman who disliked monuments generally. Saint-Gaudens may also have been influenced by Parisian funerary art from his stay in France. Saint-Gaudens's name for the bronze figure is The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but the public commonly called it Grief -- an appellation that Henry Adams apparently disliked. In a letter addressed to Homer Saint-Gaudens, on January 24, 1908, Adams instructed him: Adams Memorial, overview. Photo: HABS 1974. "Do not allow the world to tag my figure with a name! Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption -- Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap, or Macy's Mens' Suits Made to Measure. Your father meant it to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered the Sphinx." In his The Education... Henry Adams reflects on the statue and its interpreters: "His first step, on returning to Washington, took him out to the cemetery known as Rock Creek, to see the bronze figure which St. Gaudens had made for him in his absence. ...in all that it had to say, he never once thought of questioning what it meant. He supposed its meaning to be the one commonplace about it - the oldest idea known to human thought. ...As Adams sat there, numbers of people came, for the figure seemed to have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning.... Like all great artists, St. Gaudens held up the mirror and no more." At the time of Saint-Gaudens's death, the statue was well known as an important work of American sculpture. Its popularity inspired at least one prominent copy, the Black Aggie, which was sold to General Felix Agnus for his gravesite. An informative and engaging study of the memorial and the relationship between Clover and Henry Adams is Clover: The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age by historian Otto Friedrich. On March 16, 1972, the Adams Memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
15. ROCKCK_190115_066.JPG: Rabboni (sculpture) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rabboni is a public artwork by American artist Gutzon Borglum, located Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. Rabboni was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. It is a tribute to Charles Matthews Ffoulke, prominent Washington banker and tapestry collector. Description This Realist sculpture depicts Mary Magdalene emerging from an alcove consisting of three granite blocks that surround her. Dressed in long robes and a cape which covers her head, her proper right hand is raised to lift the cape from her head. Her proper left arm is extended outward in front of her. Her proper right leg is stepping forward, to recognize Jesus Christ has risen from his tomb on Easter. The lower right of the sculpture is signed: Gutzon Borglum Sc / Gorham Co. The front of the sculptures base is inscribed: RABBONI On the back of the center granite piece is an upper bronze plaque which is inscribed: THE END OF BIRTH IS DEATH THE END OF DEATH IS LIFE AND WHERFOR MOURNEST THOU A lower bronze plaque is inscribed: IN MEMORY OF Charles Mather Ffoulke 1841-1909 Sarah Cushing His Wife 1852-1926 AND THEIR CHILDREN HORACE CUSHING FFOULKE 1876-1903 GWENDOLINE FFOULKE CHARLES MATHER FFOULKE II 1889-1912 AND HORACE CUSHING BELOVED FATHER OF SARAH CUSHING 1819-1865
16. ROCKCK_190115_088.JPG: George T. McGlue, Sr (1810-1897)
17. ROCKCK_190115_091.JPG: Kauffmann Memorial From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kauffmann Memorial is a public artwork by American artist William Ordway Partridge, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. Kauffmann Memorial was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. The memorial is a tribute and grave for the former owner of the Washington Star, Samuel Kauffmann. Description The memorial features a curved granite wall exedra with seven bronze relief panels on the curve and a curved bench. Upon the bench, a "classically-draped" figure of a woman sits. She leans forward with her head bowed, looking down at a wreath made of asphodel she is in the process of making. She wears a robe tied at the waist, sandals, and her hair is pulled back and curved around her face. This woman represents "Memory," and the bronze panels (15 in. x 26 in.) depicts scenes from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Men," from As You Like It. In front of the bench and wall is a large urn that is placed on a low granite block. The front of the urn has the inscription: KAUFFMANN
18. ROCKCK_190115_139.JPG: A supportive snow hug at Rock Creek Cemetery
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20. ROCKCK_190115_296.JPG: Montgomery Blair From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813 – July 27, 1883), the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland. He served in the Lincoln administration cabinet as Postmaster-General from 1861 to 1864, during the Civil War. Early life and education Blair was born in Franklin County, Kentucky. His father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., was, as editor of the Washington Globe, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party during the Jacksonian era, and as a boy Montgomery "often listened to the talk of his father and Andrew Jackson." Blair graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835, but after a year's service in the Seminole War, he left the Army, studied law, and began practice at St Louis, Missouri, in 1839. In 1836, he married Caroline Rebecca Buckner of Virginia. After her death in 1844, he married Mary Elizabeth Woodbury, daughter of Levi Woodbury. After serving as United States district attorney (1839–43) and as judge of the court of common pleas (1834–1849), he moved to Maryland in 1852 and devoted himself to law practice principally in the United States Supreme Court. He was United States Solicitor in the Court of Claims (1855–58) and was associated with George T. Curtis as counsel for the plaintiff in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. Career The Blairs, like many other nationalist Democrats, but unusually for politicians from the border states, had abandoned the Democratic Party in the wake of the Kansas–Nebraska Act and had been among the founding leaders of the new Republican Party. Four years after Blair switched political parties, President Buchanan removed Blair from his position of United States Solicitor in 1858. In 1860, Blair took an active part in the presidential campaign on behalf of Abraham Lincoln. After his election, Lincoln appointed Blair to his cabinet as Postmaster-General in 1861. Lincoln expected Blair, who advocated taking a firm stance with the southern states, to help balance more conciliatory members of his cabinet. While Postmaster-General, Blair instituted a uniform rate of postage and free delivery in cities. Blair also began the sale of money orders by post offices in order to reduce the mailing of currency, reducing post office robberies. He also called for the First International Postal Conference, which was held in Paris in 1863 and began the process that led to the Universal Postal Union. While the Blairs, as a family, were often characterized as conservative on the issue of slavery, Montgomery Blair notably served as the defense counsel for Dred Scott when the enslaved African-American took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857. Scott was the slave of an Army doctor, John Sanford (the name was misspelled in the official record) who had taken his servant along for prolonged stays in free territory. On Scott's behalf, Blair argued that the time the black man had spent in the free state of Illinois and in Minnesota---free territory by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787-- made him a free man. The ruling by Court's majority against Scott's right to freedom is often cited as one of the contributing causes of the U.S. Civil War. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Roger Taney affirmed that the black man had no rights "that the white man was bound to respect" and that black slaves could not be considered American citizens despite having been born in the U.S. This landmark decision was denounced as a step toward the "nationalization" of slavery by Abraham Lincoln and others opposed to the expansion of that institution. Conservative as he may have been on other aspects of the slavery issue, Blair's work in the case of Dred Scott vs. Sandford suggests a willingness to embrace more progressive viewpoints. Blair served as Postmaster-General from 1861 until September 1864, when Lincoln accepted an earlier offer by Blair to resign. Lincoln's action may have been a response to the hostility of the Radical Republican faction, who stipulated that Blair's retirement should follow the withdrawal of John C. Fr�mont as a candidate for President in that year. Regarding Lincoln's action, Blair told his wife that the president had acted "from the best motives" and that "it is for the best all around." After he left the cabinet, Blair still campaigned for Lincoln's re-election and Lincoln and the Blair family retained close ties. Under Blair's administration, such reforms and improvements as the establishment of free city delivery, the adoption of a money order system, and the use of railway mail cars were instituted -- the last having been suggested by George B. Armstrong (d. 1871), of Chicago, who from 1869 until his death was general superintendent of the United States railway mail service. Differing from the Republican Party on the Reconstruction policy, Blair gave his adherence to the Democratic Party after the Civil War, along with his brother, who was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1868. In 1876, Blair was counsel to Secretary of War William W. Belknap during the House of Representatives investigation into the Trader post scandal. Blair unsuccessfully requested the House Investigation Committee chaired by Hiester Clymer to drop the charges against Belknap if Belknap would resign office. Clymer, however, declined Blair's offer. Belknap was impeached by the House of Representatives for receiving illicit payments from the Fort Sill trader post on the Western frontier while Secretary of War. Belknap had been given sole power by Congress to choose sutlers to operate lucrative trader posts that sold supplies to U.S. soldiers and Indians. Belknap resigned over the scandal and was acquitted in a Senate trial during the summer of 1876. Many Senators did not believe that Congress could convict a private citizen, although the Senate passed a resolution that stated Congress could convict a private citizen. In 1882, Blair unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Representative from Maryland's sixth district. Later life and death His 600-acre (2.4 km2) manor in present-day Silver Spring, Maryland was named Falkland. It was burned by Confederate troops during their thrust towards Washington, D.C. After several years afflicted with "inflammation of the spinal membranes," he died at Silver Spring on July 27, 1883. The funeral services were held at Rock Creek Church, and he was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery. In memory of Blair, the United States Post Office closed on July 30, 1883. Personal life Blair's wife was Mary Woodbury, a daughter of Levi Woodbury. Together, they had one daughter, Minnie Blair. They had three sons, Woodbury Blair, Gist Blair, and Montgomery Blair Jr., all of whom were attorneys. Montgomery Blair and Mary Woodbury Blair were the great-grandparents of actor Montgomery Clift. In popular culture * Blair is portrayed by actor Lew Temple in the 2012 film Saving Lincoln. * In the 2012 film Lincoln, Blair is portrayed by actor Byron Jennings. In the film, Blair is depicted as not being in favor of the 13th Amendment, referring to it as "rash and dangerous" and telling Lincoln that conservative Republicans will only vote for it "if every other possibility is exhausted." Later in the film, he urges Lincoln not to pursue the effort at the amendment's passage. * To commemorate the centennial of the First International Postal Conference, Blair's portrait appeared on a U.S. airmail stamp, Scott catalogue C66, issued in 1963.
21. ROCKCK_190115_414.JPG: This Plaque recognizes the designation of St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Rock Creek Parish) and its churchyard known as Rock Creek Cemetery, in the National Register of Historic Places. Founded originally as a preaching mission, with first services held in this vicinity the 2nd Sunday in May 1712 -- 64 years before the Declaration of Independence. "St. Paul's Rock Creek" is the oldest church and the only colonial church in the present District of Columbia. On September 18, 1719, Colonel John Bradford, Maryland Tobacco planter, gave 100 acres of land on which to build a chapel and to serve as a glebe for the support of the ministers and work of the church. The glebe, now Rock Creek Cemetery, is the Hallowed resting place of many eminent persons who contributed to American History. Erected by The District of Columbia State Society Daughters of the American Colonists May 14, 1978
22. ROCKCK_190115_442.JPG: Heurich Mausoleum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heurich Mausoleum is a public artwork by sculptor Louis Amateis, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. "Heurich Mausoleum" was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in May 1993. This sculpture is the final resting place of members of the Heurich family. Description Four caryatids are attached to each corner of a granite mausoleum (15 by 22 by 16 feet or 4.6 by 6.7 by 4.9 metres). They each have wings and stand with their hands clasped in front of their waist with their eyes closed. The placement has their heads touching the roof of the mausoleum and their bare feet rest on a low ledge. Two of the figures have braided hair, one has hair that hangs down over her shoulders and the final figure has a cape pulled around her head. The back of the mausoleum has a stained glass window showing an angel holding a scroll that is inscribed with the word Peace. The caryatids are signed: L. AMATEIS Gorham MFG CO Founders Over the mausoleum door it is inscribed: HEURICH The interior wall of the mausoleum is inscribed in German: In Tiefem Schmerz Kein Weltweishein F�rs Herz Translation: In Deep Pain, (There is) no Worldly Wisdom for the Heart Artist Louis Amateis was born in Turin, Italy on December 13, 1855. Studying architecture at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Art. With national and regional Italian he also studied in Milan and Paris before moving to New York City in 1883. Working as an architectural sculptor at McKim, Mead, and White he married his wife, Dora Ballin, in 1889. After getting married, the couple and their four sons moved to Washington, D.C. where he founded the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at what became George Washington University. He served as chairman from 1892-1902. He died March 18, 1913 of apoplexy. His son, Edmond, went on to be a prominent sculptor as well. Amateis has designed work for the United States Capitol and busts of Chester A. Arthur, General Winfield Scott Hancock, General John Logan, Andrew Carnegie among others. Acquisition The Heurich family mausoleum was originally located at their family dairy farm in Prince George's County, Maryland. The farm was located in Hyattsville, in a large part of the southern portion of the tract of land contained within Queen's Chapel Road, Ager Road, University Boulevard, and Adelphi Road. The Prince George's Plaza shopping mall, (now known as the Mall at Prince Georges), was built on the site of the home and dairy barn. The mausoleum was moved to Rock Creek Cemetery in 1951 after Mrs. Heurich (Christian Heurich's third wife) sold the farm. Information This mausoleum serves as the final resting place to members of the Heurich family. Christian Heurich (1842–1945) immigrated from Germany to the United States in 1866. In 1872 he founded Christian Heurich Brewing Company in Washington, which was first located in Dupont Circle, then relocated to a much larger site in 1895 between what is now the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and the Kennedy Center. The brewery closed in 1956 and was torn down in 1961. The Heurichs lived in Dupont Circle in what is known as the Brewmaster's Castle. The stained glass located on the back wall was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
23. ROCKCK_190115_448.JPG: Frederick Keep Monument From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frederick Keep Monument is a public artwork by American artist James Earle Fraser, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. "Frederick Keep Monument" was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. This sculpture rests at the site of the grave of Frederick and Florence Keep and their child. Description The main portion of this sculpture features a bronze female and male couple standing on a low rectangular base. The female raises both of her arms with her proper right and left hands resting on their respective shoulders. The male figure stands closely on her proper left side with his proper right arm behind her. Both of the figures are bare chested and wear loosely draped Roman-style drapery that is rolled at the waist, as well as Roman sandals. The female figure has a cape on over the back of her head and she looks downward. The male figure gazes out to the distance. They stand in front of a narrow granite wall. The lower right side of the sculpture is signed: J. E. FRASER The lower left side of the sculpture is marked: Kunst-Foundry N.Y. The back of the granite base is inscribed: FREDERIC A. KEEP DIED JUNE 2, 1911 AGE 53 YEARS FLORENCE SHEFFIELD BOARDMAN KEEP DIED JAN 26, 1954 AGE 89 YEARS INFANT OF F AND F. KEEP DIED OCT. 6, 1902 Acquisition The sculpture was installed just before or on October 3, 1920. Information Frederick Keep was a prominent Washington business man. His wife, Florence, was the sister of Mabel Thorp Boardman, one of the founders of the American Red Cross and American socialite Josephine Porter Boardman. Her father, William J. Boardman, a lawyer and philanthropist who died August 2, 1915, also is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. She traveled frequently (often with her sister Josephine) to places such as Panama and New Orleans. Florence was quite the socialite running in circles with the likes of Secretary of State John Hay, Agnes Meyer, Katharine Graham, Ruth Draper, and President & Mrs. Taft. A number of Florence Keep's personal belongings were donated to the National Museum of American History by her sister Josephine, including a late 1920s evening dress that was exhibited in the Hall of American Costume from 1964-1973.
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Wikipedia Description: Rock Creek Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It is across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

History

The cemetery was first established in 1719, under the British colony of the Province of Maryland, as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish. Later, the Vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington, D.C., which had acquired the cemetery, within its district boundaries as established in 1791, formerly, being a part of the state of Maryland, and formally established through an Act of Congress in 1840.
Rock Creek Cemetery statuary

An expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style, to function as both a cemetery and a public park. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, with sections for St. John's Russian Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.

The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable mausoleums, sculptures, and tombstones. The best known is the Adams Memorial, a contemplative, androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White. It marks the graves of Marian Hooper 'Clover' Adams and her husband, Henry Adams, and sometimes, mistakenly, the sculpture is referred to as Grief. Saint-Gaudens entitled it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding.

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