Question: Which founding father of the United States had a statute of himself created by Carl Wilhelm Daniel Rohl-Smith featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

<P0-S0> F. Weber Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer and supplier of artists' materials. <P0-S1>  Established in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the F. Weber Company, Inc. is the oldest and one of the largest manufacturers of art materials in the United States. <P0-S2>  The company has been known for quality and innovation throughout their history, for example in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—the golden years of the prestigious World Fair—F. Weber & Co. frequently won gold medals for its fine quality products. <P0-S3>  Exhibitions included: 1873 Vienna; 1876 Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia; 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago; 1903 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco; and 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. <P0-S4>  Following the death of Fredrick W. Weber Sr. in 1919, his two sons Fred W. Weber and Ernest Weber had the company incorporated and renamed it F. Weber Co., Inc. <P0-S5>  Fred W. Weber was a successful artist, chemist, inventor, and businessman, he was responsible for much of the innovation in product development from taking over in 1919 to his retirement in 1967. <P0-S6>  With his long list of innovations, a majority of which decreased the toxicity of necessary painting supplies, Fred W. Weber elevated the company to further prominence in the US art supplies market. <P0-S7>  His expertise in the arts as well as science along with the publication of his first book "Artists Pigments" (Van Nostrand 1923) made him a desirable lecturer on the topic of art. <P0-S8>  He provided advice to many celebrated 20th century artists, including: Thomas Hart Benton, Dean Cornwell, Arthur Dove, Peter Hurd, Norman Rockwell, NC Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth. <P0-S9>  At this time the company had its factory and headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and retail locations in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and St. Louis. <P0-S10>  The company was bought by Visual Art Industries of Brooklyn, NY in 1980. <P0-S11>  Honoring the Weber family, the name was not removed from the company. <P0-S12>  The company is now officially the Martin F. Weber Co. and still produces a variety of art supplies, including the original non-toxic white color "Permalba" formulated by Fred W. Weber himself in 1921. <P0-S13>  The modern company is also known for its artists signature kits designed for revered television artists such as Jon Gnagy, Bob Ross, Susan Scheme, Robert Wyland and Bruce Blitz. <SEP> <P1-S0> The Statue of "The Republic" is a 24 ft gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois. <P1-S1>  It is a smaller-scale replica constructed in 1918 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where the original statue was, and commemorates the Illinois statehood centennial. <P1-S2>  The statue was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund, which commissioned Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the original 65 ft statue that stood on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, to sculpt this replica. <P1-S3>  Henry Bacon, the architect of the Lincoln Memorial, designed the festooned pedestal for the replica statue. <SEP> <P2-S0> Carl Wilhelm Daniel Rohl-Smith (April 3, 1848- August 20, 1900) was a Danish American sculptor who was active in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1900. <P2-S1>  He sculpted a number of life-size and small bronzes based on Greco-Roman mythological themes in Europe as well as a wide number of bas-reliefs, busts, funerary monuments, and statues throughout Denmark, the German Confederation, and Italy. <P2-S2>  Emigrating to the United States in 1886, he once more produced a number of sculptures for private citizens. <P2-S3>  His most noted American works were a statue of a soldier for a Battle of the Alamo memorial in Texas, a statue of Benjamin Franklin for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, a statue group in Chicago commemorating the Fort Dearborn Massacre, and the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in Washington, D.C. <SEP> <P3-S0>  Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. <P3-S1>  As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. <P3-S2>  As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. <P3-S3>  He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution. <P3-S4> Benjamin Franklin FRS, FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.