THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)

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THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894) , American sculptor, was born at Abbeyleix, Ireland, on the 8th of February 1833. In 1847 he emigrated to the United States, and settled with his mother at Albany, New

York

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HOUSE
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  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
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YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
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- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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. After studying anatomy in the office of a physician, Dr Armsby, he spent nine years in' the studio of the sculptor, E. D. Palmer. In 1857 he opened a studio in New

York

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HOUSE
- HOUSE
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  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
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- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, and in 1862 became a National Academician. He visited Rome in 1868-1869, and from 1875 to 1887 was again in Italy, living for most of the time at Florence. He died at

Middletown

MIDDLETOWN

, New York, on the 26th of September 1894. Among his important works are : "

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

the First," at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; " Abraham Pierson," first president of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; an equestrian statue of General A. E. Burnside, Providence, Rhode

Island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

; " General Winfield Scott," Soldiers'

Home

, Washington, D.C.; "Admiral S. F. Du Pont " (Washington, D.C.) ; " General John Sedgwick
(West Point, N.Y.); a medallion portrait of General John A. Dix; and portrait busts of James Gordon Bennett, William

Cullen

Bryant, S. F. B. Morse, Edwin Booth as Hamlet, Stephen H. Tyng and Robert B. Minturn.

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