Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-11-13
Death OF Crawford, the American
Sculptor.

another great light is extinguished. The
eye which flushed with the genius of an art
that makes fame eter nal is rayless forever,
and the hand which gave vitality to matter
eled his greatness. All that remains OF the
sculptor of 'Orpbeus, pronounced by Thor
waldsen 'thr nIost classic statue in the stud
les of Rome,' is the renown his works be-
qneaih to his country.
AnieEicsr. Iu me dear,4 Of CRAWFORD, has
cause 10 moura over his demise, for il, dis
taat lands he won her enduring honor, open
/ ed to American intellect pathway 10 Eu-
rope, an appreciation, and BY his noble
works comms uded the admiration of the
most cultivated minds of the age
Mr. Crawford was born in ibis civ in
1888. ln youth he gave evidence Of u re-
markable fondness for arr. which his father
had the sagacity to comprehend and cult
vate. Ha was schoolfeIlow of Page, the
Well-known portrait painter, and, like the
latter, while at school, preferred TO draw
animals or trees on a slate rather than bo
working out the solution of some arith met
icai or mathematical problem.
At twenty years of age he was sent to
Rome, and was fortunate in making the ac.
quaiatanee of the celebrated Thorwaldseu
He executed busts of the late Commoa ore
Hall, Mr.. Kenyon, Sir Charles Vaughan,
Josiah Quincy. &c. In 1889 he designed
'Orphcus,' the finest production nf his chis-
el. Next followed 'Cupid and Psyce, Sap
pho sFesta, 'Genius of Mirth, Adam and
Eve David before SAUL and a number of
Scriptural has reliefs' In 1855 his fame
as sculptor, which was gradually develop
ing, shone forth with redouJled lustre in the
production of his noble statue in bronze of
Bethooveu, which is deposited in the Music
Hall of Boston. But bis greatest work was
destined to be the last-the Washington
Monument, ordered By the State of Virgin
ia, with which the public are long familiar
Mr. Crawford was married some years a 90
to Miss Ward, of this city. Ho has left
several children, who are now living with
his wife's sister, Mrs. Maillard, at Borden
town, N. j. For the last year or two be
has been the victim OF dreadful disease.
which has deprived him almost entirely of
sight, aud caused him to renounce his art
entirely. A malignant tnmor made it's ap-
pearance in his left eye, aud in spite of ev-
cry effort Of his physicians, increased to such
an extent that the eye ptotruded almost
out of its socket, while the agony, which
was intense, seemed beyond the aid of art.
Last Spring be was induced to leave Rome
and place himself under the care of DR.. Fell
of London, young American physician,
who had acquired some reputation for his
treatment of cancers. For a while the suf
ferer seemed to obtain relief, but the efforts
to remove the cancer at the sacrifice OF the
eye itself, proved entirely unavailipg; the
disease penetrated to the brain, and after
months of anguish, which he bore with sin
gular patience, he was relieved of his suffer
ings by death on the morning of Saturday.
Oct. 10, ia the forty fourth year of his age.
| The body will be seat home in the steam-
ship Arago, or the one immediately succeed
ing her 1t is Mrs. Crawford's. wish that
| the funeral services here should be held in
st. Johns Church, where he statedIy wor-
shipped before he left for Rome.--sE. Y.
Herald