Evening star., 1914-11-20
MRS. H0X|E DIES
At HOME HERE
First Woman to Receive Com
mission From Government
for Work of Sculpture.
ILL FOR EIGHT WEEKS;
FUNERAL NEXT MONDAY
Constant Stream of ! Sorrowing
Friends Call at K Street Residence
to Express Coincidence.

Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie, the sculptor,
who had the distinction of being the
| first woman to receive 4 commission
| from the government of the United
States for work OF sculpture, died a,
| s o'clock this morning at the family
residence, 1892 K street northwest. Mrs
| Hoxie's death followed an illness of
eight weeks.
Funeral services are to be held al
2:s0 o'clock Monday afternoon at st
Johns Church. Lafayette Square.
Mrs. Hoxie is survived by her hus
band, Gen. r. l.. Hoxie, and by one son.
Richard Ream Hoxie.' A sister, Mrs.
| Mary Ream Fuller. also survives. there
being no near relatives aside from two
| nephews who live in the west.
| Mrs. Hoxie was stricken with the ILL
ness. which later terminated fatally,
| while at her home in Iowa. She was
| brought to Washington on a special
! train, accompanied by two trained
nurses. in the hope that the change and
| the treatment she might receive here
! would prove beneficial
During her illness scores of messages
of inquiry were received from friends
| In this country and abroad, and many
Washington friends have called daily
at the Hoxie home, anxiously inquir
|
Within a short time after the fact of
Mrs. Hoxie's death became known to-
| day constant stream of sorrowing
| friends began to call at the home to
leave messages of coincidence and eX-
pressions of their personal grief at the
passing of the famous sculptor.
Came Here as Child.
| Mrs. Hoxie was born in Madison.
Wis, September 25, 1S47, daughter of
| Robert Lee and Lavinia Mcdonald
Ream. When a child she came to
| Washington to live, her father having
| accepted position here. Several years
| later the family moved west again. and
| she was educated at Christian College,
Missouri At school Miss Ream wrote
| several songs, which were set to music
and published. DuriVg the civil war
the family returned to Washington
and Miss Ream obtained clerkship
| in the Post Office Department. Subse-
quently she gave up the position to
study art, and soon devoted her time
exclusively to sculpture. She received
her training under Bonnat in Paris
| Reafa married Richard Leveridge
Hoxie, then a first lieutenant in the
| Engineer Corps. L. S. A.
| To Mrs Hoxie belonged the distinc-
| ton of having been the first woman
| Tor whom a statue was ordered by
| the United States government. She re-
| ceived from Congress commission to
| EXECUTE a life-sized statue of Abraham
| Lincoln. which for years occupied an
honored position in Statuary Iiall In
the Capitol, and now stands in the ro-
tunda. Later she was commissioned to
make statue of Admiral Farragut,
| which now stands in Farragut Square.
The residence at the southeast corner
of 18th and X streets northwest, where
Mrs. Hoxie had lived for many years.
faces this square, and from it's win
dows an excellent view or. the herolc
| statue Of the famous admiral may be
obtained. The statue Is cast from the
bronze of the propeller of the Hart
| ford Admiral Farraeuts flagship.
The statues OF Lincoln ana Farraeut
are perhaps the best known of the
| many pieces of sculpture which Mrs
| Hoxie executed. Others include IDEAL
statues of miriam THE West" Sap
'"The Indian Girl: also busts in marble.
| ;nciudinp one of President Lincoln,
which was made for Cornell University
Mrs. Moxie modelled from life portraits
Mcclellan. Thaddeus Stevens, John
Sherman Ezra Cornell. Gen. J. G. Ere
mont, T. Buchanan Read. Elihu b.
Washburn. Horace Greeley, Peter Coop
err Gen. Grant, Albert Pike ana other
, prominent Americans
Medallions of Others.
| During the years Mrs. Hoxie spent
abroad studying and preparing the
statue of President Lincoln she pro-
duced medallions of Cardinal Antonelli.
Pere Hyacinthe. DR.. Spurgeon. Franz
Liszt, Gustave Dore and Kaulbach. Her
| most recent piece of work a life
! size statue of Gov. Samuel ]. Kirkwood
! of iowa in bronze. She was commits
| stoned by the Legislature of Oklahoma
| to execute statue of Sequoyah, an In
| dian chief. who is closely associated
! with the early history of that state.
| The sketches of Lincoln which form
ed a basis for Mrs. Hoxie's statue of
| the martyred President were made in
| the White House. Mrs. Hoxie was in
her teens at the time. About six months
after they had been completed and be-
fore Mrs. Hoxie had Skecuted the clay
model of her statue President Lincoln
was assassinated.
Accompanied by her mother and ia