Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-13
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r." General
Several Other Notable Statues
Are Also to Be Added at
Early Date

Washington, D. c., March PA
statue of Jefferson Davis, the Presi
dent of the Confederate States o.
America, is likely to lie added soon
to the collection in Statuary Hall in
the Capitol. The statue will he a con
tributiOn to the nation from the
State of Mississippi, of which State
Mr.. Davis was a resident the greater
part of his life. In. addition to the
Davis statue Mississippi proposes to
place a statue of James u. George in
the hall of fame. Mr.. George was q
noted statesman and for many years
represented Mississippi in the Unit.
ed States senate.
Several other notable additions to
the collection in Statuary Hall are
to be made at an early date. At the
end of next month Florida will set
up a statue of Dr.. John Gorrie, the
inventor of the first ice making ma
chine in the world. The Gorrie sta
tue will be exposed to public view
for the first time April 80, and there
will be ceremonies attending the un-
yelling appropriate to the occasion.
At q later date Florida will also place
in Statuary Hall a statue of Gen. ~.
Kirby-Spith, one of the noted Flor.
ida commanders in the Confederate
army.
Statuary Hall, as most people
know, was established fifty years
ago at the suggestion Of Justin S.
Morrill, of Vermont, then q member
of the house of representatives. The
room which had in the early history
of the Government been used as a
meeting place of the house of repre-.
sentatives was designated q national
S~tatuary Hall to which each State
might send "the effigies Of two of her
chosen sons in marble or bronze, to
DO placed permanently here" John
Quincy Adams was stricken with ia:
tai illness in this hall and died In an
adjoining room.
AS the years have gone 10y States,
with a good deal of d~ellberatiOn, have
taken advantage of the invitation ex,
tended by Congress. Among the first
to respond was MASSACHUSETTS. WHICH
placed In the hall statues of John
Winthrop, first governor of the colony
which settled on what is O Massa:
chusetts ground, and Samuel Adams,
who was prominent in the agitation
which brought about the Revolutions:
airy War. Virginia is represented by
George Washington, first President OF
the United States, and Robert Lee,
commander of the Confederate army.
Tie New York statues in the hall
of fame are those of George Clinton,
general in the Revolution, first gov
erlOr Of New York and twice Vice
president Of the United States, and
Robert r. Livingston, member of the
Continental Congress and a member
Of the committee that drafted the De:
claratiCn of Independence.
Illinois Is thus far the only State
to honor the memory of a woman by
placing her statue in Statuary Hall.
The woman thus honOred was the
late Miss Frances =. Willard, founder
of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union. The other statue placed
IN the hall by the State of Illinois is
that Of James Shields, u noted civil
war general and United states sena.
tor.
Among the other statues now in the
hall are those of Ethan Allen Of Yer.
mont, known to history as the hero
of T~iconderoga; Stephen F. Austin of
Texas, a leader in the movement for
Texan independence; James A. Gar