Greenough, Horatio
sculptor, was born Sept. 6, 1805, in Boston, Mass. His Chanting Cherubs was the first group in marble executed by an American sculptor.
He executed the colossal statue of Washington in front of the national capitol, for which congress paid twenty thousand dollars, and a group entitled The Rescue, on the steps leading to the rotunda of the same building. He died Dec. 18, 1852, in Boston, Mass.
GREENOUGH, JAMES BRADSTREET, educator, author, was born in 1833, in Maine. He was a professor of Latin at Harvard university from 1873, who has published with J. H. Allen a series of classical text-books. Other works of his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; and The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic Fantasia.
GREENOUGH, RICHARD SALTON- STALL, sculptor, was born April 27, 1819, in Jamaica Plains, Mass. Among his works are a statue of Franklin, placed in the city hall square of Boston; the Boy and Eagle, owned by the Boston athenæum; a Carthagenian Woman; Cupid on a Tortoise; Elaine; Circe; and a Psyche.
GREENOUGH, MRS. SARAH DANA (LORING), sculptor, author, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1827, in Boston, Mass. She was the author of In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law; Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; and Mary Magdalene, and Other Poems. She died Aug. 9, 1885, in Austria.