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Brooks, Caroline Shawk

sculptor, was born April 28, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1877 she secured a patent for improvements in the methods of producing lubricated moulds in plaster. In 1878 she executed in butter at Washington a life-size statue of the Dreaming Iolanthe, which was successfully transported to Paris and exhibited at the world's fair of 1878. She subsequently opened a studio in New York, and executed portrait marbles of Emanuel Swedenborg, James A. Garfield, Thurlow Weed, George Eliot, and Thomas Carlyle.