Putnam patriot., 1930-05-29
VIM. o. PARTRIDGE
 DIES IN NEW YORK
Noted Sculptor Lived Several Years on Senexet Road
 South Woodstock
Brother Of Rev. Welles Nj. and Bishop s. (. Partridge

William Ordway Partridge. noted sculptor. died last Thursday in New York after an illness covering several years. He was sixty-eiRht years old. As a portrait and figure sculptor Mir. Partridge did many monuments and his works are found in many cities of the east and middle west
 As a young men Mir. Partridge spent many years at the home of his uncle the late Judge Lynde A, Catiin, Senexet road. South Woodstock. Ar ter his uncle died he purchased the place from the estate and made it the family home for some four or five years. He leaves besides his wife, Margaret Ridgley Schotte Partridge, whom he married in Venice. June IA, 1905, a daughter Margaret Living stone Partridge, q son by former marriage. George Sydney Partridge and two brothers. Bishop Sidney Cat lin Partridge and Rev. Welles Mor- timer Partridge of Boston, gradu- ate of the Putnam high school. The funeral was private.
 Among Mir. Partridge's chief art figures are the statue of Governor Samuel J. Tilden at Riverside Drive, New York; the statues of Thomas Jef ferson and Alexander Hamilton on the Columbia University campus; the equestrian statue of General Ulysses s. Grant in Brooklyn; the marble group of the Pieta in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Joseph Pulitzer memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery.
 Modelled Distinguished Men
 Among Mir. Partridge's portrait busts. including more than fifty dis tinguished men of his time, are those of Chiei Justice Fuller in the Su- preme Court at Washington; Theo- dore Roosevelt. in the Republican Club. New York; John Greenleaf Whittier, in the Boston Public Library: Robert Peary. at Bowdoin College; Sir Henry Irving. at the Ly- eenm Theater. London. and Dean Van Amringe, at Columbia University.
 MT. Partridge also did bronzes of many poets. musicians and men of letters. including Beethoven. Wagner, Shelley. Keats, Byron. Carlyle, and marbles of Tennyson, Milton. Scott. Burns and Longfellow.
 Other well-known works from his ehisel are the marble Peace Head" in London; Nearing Home" in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington. and the "Prodigal Son." life-sized marble.
 He was born in Paris on April II, 1861. the son of George Sidney and Helen Derby Partridge and was edu- eated at Columbia University. from which he graduated in 1885. He re- ceived the degree of Master of Arts from the Regents of the State O. New fork for general culture, the first de gree of it's kind to be given.
 Exhibited in Paris at Age of 20
 He studied art in Paris. Florence and Rome and was the personal friend of Rodin. Bourgereau and Alfred Stevens. At the age of twenty he eX- hibited his work in the Paris Salon and in the Royal Academy in London
 Mir Partridge was a lecturer at the Concord School of Philosophy, Stam- ford University and was professor at George Washington University.
 He was the author of many art books. among the best known being "Art for America. l" "The Technique Q Sculpture" and ''The Song Life of the Sculptor. Other of his books are The Angel of Clay. Nathan Hale. |" the Ideal Patriot" and "The Czar's Gift. !"
 Mr Partridge was member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Architec- tural League and Psi Upsilon frater- nifty. He was an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. the Royal Society of Arts. London. and the National Geographical Socie- ty. His clubs were the Cosmos, of Washington, and the Authors and l.otos, New York.