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    Thomas Gibson Crawford

    Birth: 3-22-1814

    Death: 10-10-1857

Biography

American sculptor responsible for several statues located in the U.S. Capitol Building including "Statue of Freedom" which sits atop the Capitol. Frances "Fanny" Seward references seeing the statue in her 1860 diary.

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Biography: 
American sculptor responsible for several statues located in the U.S. Capitol Building including "Statue of Freedom" which sits atop the Capitol. Frances "Fanny" Seward references seeing the statue in her 1860 diary.
Citation Type: 
Website
Citation URL: 
https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/thomas-crawford
Title of Webpage: 
Thomas Crawford - Architect of the Capitol
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Citation for Birth Info:
Citation Type: 
Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title: 
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 2
Author(s) or Editor(s): 
James Grant Wilson and John Fiske
Year: 
1900
Start Page: 
5
Citation Notes: 
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclopædia_of_American_Biography/Crawford,_Thomas
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Citation Type: 
Website
Citation URL: 
ancestry.com
Title of Webpage: 
Ancestry
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Citation Notes: 
Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data:Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.