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Clevenger, Shobal Vail

sculptor, was born Oct. 23, 1812, in Middletown, Ohio. Specimens of his work are now preserved in the art-galleries of the Boston athenæum, the New York and Philadelphia Historical societies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His bust of Daniel Webster, recognized as the most faithful likeness of the great statesman, was selected by the postoffice department as best adapted for representation on the fifteen-cent United States postage-stamp. He died Sept. 23, 1843, in Chicago, Ill.