Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Chronology

1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens born March 1 in Dublin, Ireland of a French father and Irish mother. Six months later the family sailed for the United States, settling in New York.

1867 First visit to Paris to attend the Paris Exposition and to enroll in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
1870 First visit to Rome.
1876 Received commission to execute the memorial to Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. Unveiled on Madison Square, New York City, 1881.
1877 Married Augusta F. Homer of Roxbury, Massachusetts, whom he had met in Rome.
1880 Son Homer born.
1885 First visit to Cornish, New Hampshire.
1887 “Lincoln the Man”, the standing Lincoln, unveiled at Lincoln Park, Chicago.
1891 Executed the monument to Mrs. Henry Adams, “Grief”, located in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington.
1897 Colonel Robert Gould Shaw memorial unveiled on Boston Common.
1904 Disastrous fire destroyed one of the studios at Cornish.
1907 Died on August 3 at “Aspet”, Cornish, New Hampshire.