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MILMORE, Martin  (1844-1883) Irish-American sculptor.
           Born Sligo, Ireland, 1844. Often misspelled Millmore.
            Came to America before 1860 when he worked in studio of
            Thomas Ball. In 1884 he went to Rome, executed bust of
            Pius IX. His statue of Charles Sumner in United States Capitol,
           Soldiers’ and Saliors’ Monuments in Boston and Springfield.
           Died Boston, 21 July 1883.

           M   E   D   A   L   S

1877 Springfield Massachusetts Soldiers’ and Sailors’
            Monument Dedication Medal (Milmore's statue
            with General Charles Devens on reverse). . . . . . Storer 135

           B I O G R A P I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

101 {1877} Boston City Council.  Dedication of the Monument on Boston Common
           Erected to the Memory of the Men of Boston Who Died in the Civil War.             
           Boston: Order of City Council (1877) 144 pp.
D8  {1926} Fielding, p 243.
A2  {1927} Fairman, p 352-353.
BE  {1943} Webster's Biographical Dictionary, p 1025.
BDAB{1946} Dictionary of American Biography  7:1 p 18-19, by A.A. [Adeline
           Adams].
D33 {1985} Opitz, p 626 (Millmore).
A32 {1993} Reynolds, passim.
BANB{1999} American National Biography, p 15:557-558, by Michael W. Panhorst.
D3a {2006} Benezit.Dictionary of Artists, 9:1008.

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M10 {1923} Storer (Massachusetts) 135, p 21.
"There has been no scholar better qualified to create 'the American Forrer' than Dick Johnson."
-Cornelius C. Vermule III, Curator Emeritus
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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