The Nevada journal., 1857-12-25
DEATH OF CRAWFORD, THE AMERr-

DEATH OF CRAWFORD, THE AMERI-
CAN SCULPToR.-Another great light is
extinguished. The eye which flushed
with the genius of an art that makes
fame eternal is rayless forever, and the
hand which gave vitality to matter is as
cold as the marble from which he CHS
eled his greatness. All that remains of
the sculptor of "Orpheus,' pronounced
by Thorwaldsen "the most classic statue
in the studies of Rome" is the renown
his works bequeath to his country.
America, in the death of Crawford
has cause to mourn over his demise, for
in distant lands he won her enduring
honor, opened to American intellect a
pathway to Europe, an appreciation,
and by his noble works commanded the
admiration of the most cultivated minds
of the age.
Mr.. Crawford was born in this city in
1913. In youth he gave evidence of a
remarkable fondness for art, which his
father had the sagacity to comprehend
and cultivate. He was school fellow
of Page. the well-known portrait paint
er, and, like the latter, while at school,
preferred to draw animals or trees on a
slate rather than be working out the So
luton of some arithmetical problem.
At twenty years of age he was sent to
Rome, and was fortunate in making the
acquaintance of the celebrated Thor
waldsen. He executed busts of the late
Commodore Hull, Mr.. Kenyon, Sir
Charles Vaughan, Josiah Quincy, &c.
In 1889 he designed "Orpheus," the
finest production of his chisel. Next
followed Cupid and Psyche" "Sap-
pho," "Vesta," ""Genus of Mirth," "Ad-
am and Eve" ""David before SAUL" and
a number of Scriptural bas reliefs. In
1855 his fame as a sculptor, which was
gradually developing shone forth with
redoubled lustre in the production of his
noble statue in bronze of Beethoven,
which is deposited in the Music Hall of
Boston. But his greatest work was des-
tined to be lis last-the Washington
Monument, ordered by the State of Vir-
ginia, with which the public are long
| familiar
Mr.. Crawford was married some years
ago to Miss Ward, of this city. He has
left several children, who are now liv-
ing with his wife's sister, Mrs. Milliard,
at Bordentown, n. J. For the last year
or two he has been the victim of dread
full disease, which has deprived him al
most entirely of sight, and caused him
to renounce his art entirely. A malig-
nant tumor made its appearance in his
left eye, and in spite of every effort of
his physicians, increased to such an ex-
tent that the eye protruded almost out
of its socket, while the agony which was
intense, seemed beyond the aid of art
Last Spring he was induced to leave
Rome and placed himself under the care
of DIR. Fell, Of London, young Ameri-
can physician, who had acquired some
reputation for his treatment of cancers.
For while the sufferer, seemed to OBJ
tain relief, but the efforts to remove the
cancer at the sacrifice of the eye itself,
proved entirely unavailing the disease
penetrated to the brain and after months
of anguish, which he bore with singular
patience, he was relieved of his suffer
ings by death on the 44th year of his
age. The body will be sent home in
the steamship Arago, or the one imme-
diately succeeded her. 1t is Mrs. Craw-
ford's wish that the funeral services here
should be held in ST. Johns Church
where he statedly worshipped before he
left for Rome.-N. Y Herald.