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{{short description|American sculptor}}

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'''Melzar Hunt Mosman''' (March 10, 1843 – January 11, 1923) was an American sculptor who made a number of [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and [[Spanish-American War]] monuments in Massachusetts.
'''Melzar Hunt Mosman''' (March 10, 1843 – January 11, 1926) was an American sculptor who made a number of [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and [[Spanish–American War]] monuments in Massachusetts.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Mosman was born on March 10, 1843 in [[Chicopee, Massachusetts]].<ref name=Shapiro>{{cite book|last=Shapiro|first=Michael Edward|title=Bronze Casting and American Sculpture, 1850-1900|year=2009|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786442270}}</ref> His father, [[Silas Mosman]], ran the [[Ames Manufacturing Company]]'s bronze foundry. The foundry made statues and monuments, including the statue of [[Benjamin Franklin]] at [[Old City Hall (Boston)|Old City Hall]] and the bronze doors for the east wing of the [[United States Capitol]]. The Mosman family had been involved in metal work since they arrived in Massachusetts in 1632.<ref name=Jendrysik />
Mosman was born on March 10, 1843, in [[Chicopee, Massachusetts]].<ref name=Shapiro>{{cite book|last=Shapiro|first=Michael Edward|title=Bronze Casting and American Sculpture, 1850–1900|year=2009|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786442270}}</ref> His father, [[Silas Mosman]], ran the [[Ames Manufacturing Company]]'s bronze foundry. The foundry made statues and monuments, including the statue of [[Benjamin Franklin]] at [[Old City Hall (Boston)|Old City Hall]] and the bronze doors for the east wing of the [[United States Capitol]]. The Mosman family had been involved in metal work since they arrived in Massachusetts in 1632.<ref name=Jendrysik />


In 1860 Mosman went to work at Ames, where he produced drawings for presentation swords.<ref name=Shapiro /> He graduated from [[Chicopee High School]] in 1862.<ref name=Jendrysik />
In 1860 Mosman went to work at Ames, where he produced drawings for presentation swords.<ref name=Shapiro /> He graduated from [[Chicopee High School]] in 1862.<ref name=Jendrysik />


==Military service==
==Military service==
A few weeks after graduating high school, Mosman joined the 46th Massachusetts Volunteers, where he saw combat in the [[Newbern, North Carolina]] area.<ref name=Shapiro /><ref name=Jendrysik /> He was transfered to an engineering unit that was tasked with preparing for the [[Siege of Vicksburg]]. He mustered out in 1864 after contracting a near fatal fever.<ref name=Jendrysik>{{cite news|last=Jendrysik|first=Stephen|title=Mosman family left imprint on Chicopee, nation|newspaper=The Republican|date=November 16, 2011|url=http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2011/11/stephen_jendrysik_mosman_family_left_imprint_on_chicopee_nation.html}}</ref>
A few weeks after graduating high school, Mosman joined the [[46th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment|46th Massachusetts Infantry]], where he saw combat in the [[Newbern, North Carolina]], area.<ref name=Shapiro /><ref name=Jendrysik /> He was transferred to an engineering unit that was tasked with preparing for the [[Siege of Vicksburg]]. He mustered out in 1864 after contracting a near fatal fever.<ref name=Jendrysik>{{cite news|last=Jendrysik|first=Stephen|title=Mosman family left imprint on Chicopee, nation|newspaper=The Republican|date=November 16, 2011|url=http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2011/11/stephen_jendrysik_mosman_family_left_imprint_on_chicopee_nation.html}}</ref>


==Sculpting==
==Sculpting==


===Ames Manufacturing Company===
===Ames Manufacturing Company===
After the leaving the [[Union Army]], Mosman returned to the Ames' foundry. In 1867 he traveled to [[Paris]] to work in a foundry there. He later studied casting methods in [[Italy]] and the [[German Empire]].<ref name=Shapiro /><ref name=Jendrysik />
After the leaving the [[Union Army]], Mosman returned to the Ames foundry, where he cast cannons for use in the war.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/overview4.htm|title=Soldiers Monument|work=Connecticut's Civil War Monuments|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|access-date=June 9, 2018}}</ref> In 1867 he traveled to [[Paris]] to work in a foundry there. He later studied casting methods in [[Italy]] and the [[German Empire]].<ref name=Shapiro /><ref name=Jendrysik />


In 1870 to 1871 he sculpted [[Westfield, Massachusetts]]' Civil War Memorial. It was dedicated in May 30, 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!342894~!10&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Civil War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
From 1870 to 1871 he sculpted [[Westfield, Massachusetts]]' Civil War Memorial. It was dedicated on May 30, 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!342894~!10&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Civil War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


On January 9, 1874, Mosman was paid $10,000 by [[Middletown, Connecticut]] to sculpt a civil war monument.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/066.htm|title=Soldier's Monument|work=Connecticut's Civil War Monuments|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
On January 9, 1874, Mosman was paid $10,000 by [[Middletown, Connecticut]], to sculpt a Civil War monument.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/066.htm|title=Soldier's Monument|work=Connecticut's Civil War Monuments|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


In 1874, Mosman and his father assisted [[Daniel Chester French]] with the minuteman statue at the [[Old North Bridge]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]]. The statue was unveiled by President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] on the centenary of the [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]] (April 19, 1876).<ref name=Jendrysik />
In 1874, Mosman and his father assisted [[Daniel Chester French]] with the minuteman statue at the [[Old North Bridge]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]]. The statue was unveiled by President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] on the centenary of the [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]] (April 19, 1876).<ref name=Jendrysik />


Mosman designed a Civil War monument for Henry E. Hone of [[Saugus, Massachusetts]], which was erected in the rotary at Saugus Center in 1875.<ref>{{cite book|last=Atherton|first=Horace H.|title=History of Saugus, Massachusetts|year=1916|publisher=Citizens Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade|pages=45–46|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=550-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA45&dq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1PB923134R333.52&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&index=.GW&term=saugus%2C+massachusetts&oper=AND&aspect=power&index=.AW&term=&oper=AND&index=.TW&term=civil+war+memorial&oper=AND&index=.SW&term=&ultype=&uloper=%3D&ullimit=&ultype=&uloper=%3D&ullimit=&sort=&x=11&y=13#focus|title=Civil War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}</ref>
Mosman designed a Civil War monument for Henry E. Hone of [[Saugus, Massachusetts]], which was erected in the rotary at Saugus Center in 1875.<ref>{{cite book|last=Atherton|first=Horace H.|title=History of Saugus, Massachusetts|year=1916|publisher=Citizens Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofsaugusm00athe_0/page/45 45]–46|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsaugusm00athe_0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1PB923134R333.52&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=50&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=ariall&ri=&index=.GW&term=saugus%2C+massachusetts&oper=AND&aspect=power&index=.AW&term=&oper=AND&index=.TW&term=civil+war+memorial&oper=AND&index=.SW&term=&ultype=&uloper=%3D&ullimit=&ultype=&uloper=%3D&ullimit=&sort=&x=11&y=13#focus|title=Civil War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref>


Mosman designed and sculpted [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]]'s soldiers' monument. The monument was the of the largest and most expensive in the state and Mosman was said to have received $18,500 for his work. It was dedicated on August 17, 1876.<ref name= Bridgeport>{{cite web|url=http://www.chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/009.htm|title=Soldiers Monument|work=Connecticut's Civil War Monuments|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
Mosman designed and sculpted [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]]'s soldiers' monument. The monument was the largest and most expensive in the state and Mosman was said to have received $18,500 for his work. It was dedicated on August 17, 1876.<ref name= Bridgeport>{{cite web|url=http://www.chs.org/finding_aides/ransom/009.htm|title=Soldiers Monument|work=Connecticut's Civil War Monuments|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


Mosman designed and cast the Fireman's Monument in [[Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut)|Evergreen Cemetery]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], which was dedicated on July 9, 1877.<ref name=Bridgeport /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!311762~!5&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Fireman's Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
Mosman designed and cast the Fireman's Monument in [[Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut)|Evergreen Cemetery]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], which was dedicated on July 9, 1877.<ref name=Bridgeport /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!311762~!5&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Fireman's Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


In 1883 he sculpted ''Northampton Remembers'', bronze statues of a Civil War soldier and sailor that adorn the entrance of Memorial Hall in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!11016~!3&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Northampton Remembers, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!11015~!2&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Northampton Remembers, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
In 1883 he sculpted ''Northampton Remembers'', bronze statues of a Civil War soldier and sailor that adorn the entrance of Memorial Hall in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!11016~!3&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Northampton Remembers, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!11015~!2&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Northampton Remembers, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


===Chicopee Bronze Works===
===Chicopee Bronze Works===
In 1884, Mosman left Ames after a dispute and stated his own foundry, the [[Chicopee Bronze Works]].<ref name=Shapiro />
In 1884, Mosman left Ames after a dispute and started his own foundry, the [[Chicopee Bronze Works]].<ref name=Shapiro />


Mosman did the bronze sculptures (three muskets, a drum, knapsack, cartridge box, and canteen) for the 10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument. The monument marks the position of the [[10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment]] on the [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] on July 3, 1863. It was dedicated on October 6, 1885.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!342781~!7&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Civil War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref> That same year, another one of his sculptures, a civil war monument, was erected in [[Court Square]] in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].<ref name="Smithsonian"/>
Mosman did the bronze sculptures (three muskets, a drum, knapsack, cartridge box, and canteen) for the 10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument. The monument marks the position of the [[10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment]] on the [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] on July 3, 1863. It was dedicated on October 6, 1885.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!342781~!7&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Civil War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref> That same year, another one of his sculptures, a civil war monument, was erected in [[Court Square]] in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].<ref name="Smithsonian"/>


Mosman modeled the bronze statues for [[Brattleboro, Vermont]]'s Civil War Monument. The monument was dedicated on [[Bunker Hill Day]] (June 17), 1887.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I1826613H8X5.304&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!311604~!1&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Chicopee+Bronze+Works,+founder.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Civil War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
Mosman modeled the bronze statues for [[Brattleboro, Vermont]]'s Civil War Monument. The monument was dedicated on [[Bunker Hill Day]] (June 17), 1887.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I1826613H8X5.304&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!311604~!1&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Chicopee+Bronze+Works,+founder.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Civil War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


In 1889, Mosman sculpted the bronze figure for [[Winchendon, Massachusetts]]' Civil War Soldiers' Monument.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!343208~!11&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Winchendon Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref> That same year he, [[Caspar Buberl]], and Stephen J. O'Kelly completed [[Nashua, New Hampshire]]'s Soldiers' and Sailors Monument.<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Sullivan|first=Niamh|title=Aloysius O'Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire|year=2010|publisher= Field Day Publications|location=Dublin|isbn=9780946755424|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5K4W8kWtqnkC&pg=PA13&dq}}</ref>
In 1889, Mosman sculpted the bronze figure for [[Winchendon, Massachusetts]]' Civil War Soldiers' Monument.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!343208~!11&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Winchendon Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref> That same year he, [[Caspar Buberl]], and Stephen J. O'Kelly completed [[Nashua, New Hampshire]]'s [[Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Nashua, New Hampshire)|Soldiers and Sailors Monument]].<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Sullivan|first=Niamh|title=Aloysius O'Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire|year=2010|publisher= Field Day Publications|location=Dublin|isbn=9780946755424|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5K4W8kWtqnkC&pg=PA13}}</ref>


From 1901 to 1902, Mosman designed and cast a 7 1/2-foot statue of [[Walter Harriman (governor)|Walter Harriman]] that was placed in [[Warren, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Sculpture|newspaper=The Monument News|date=January 1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cQ7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA476&lpg=PA476&dq}}</ref>
From 1901 to 1902, Mosman designed and cast a {{frac|7|1|2}}-foot statue of [[Walter Harriman (governor)|Walter Harriman]] that was placed in [[Warren, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Sculpture|newspaper=The Monument News|date=January 1902|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cQ7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA476}}</ref>


From 1903 to 1905, the foundry cast [[Thomas Crawford (sculptor)|Thomas Crawford]] and [[William H. Rinehart]]'s ''[[Revolutionary War Door]]'' for the U.S. Capitol building.<ref name=Shapiro /><ref>{{cite news|last=Walton|first=Jill M.|title=Northampton Local Monuments: Testament to an Enduring Historical Legacy|newspaper=Historical Journal of Massachusetts|date=Winter 2005}}</ref>
From 1903 to 1905, the foundry cast [[Thomas Crawford (sculptor)|Thomas Crawford]] and [[William H. Rinehart]]'s ''[[Revolutionary War Door]]'' for the U.S. Capitol building.<ref name=Shapiro /><ref>{{cite news|last=Walton|first=Jill M.|title=Northampton Local Monuments: Testament to an Enduring Historical Legacy|newspaper=Historical Journal of Massachusetts|date=Winter 2005}}</ref>


In 1906, Mosman sculpted the Spanish American Veterans Memorial erected by the Friends of the Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in [[Memorial Square, Springfield, Massachusetts|Memorial Square]], Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!342792~!8&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Spanish American Veterans Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
In 1906, Mosman sculpted the Spanish American Veterans Memorial erected by the Friends of the Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in [[Memorial Square, Springfield, Massachusetts|Memorial Square]], Springfield, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!342792~!8&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Spanish American Veterans Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


In 1907, he sculpted ''Massachusetts'', the monument erected in [[Winchester National Cemetery]] by the Commonwealth in honor of its soldiers who died in the [[Shenandoah Valley]] during the Civil War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!328644~!6&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Massachusetts, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref> That same year the [[Massachusetts General Court]] approved funding for a monument to Massachusetts' soldiers in the [[New Bern National Cemetery]]. Mosman was chosen by a commission appointed by Governor [[Curtis Guild, Jr.]] to design and sculpt the monument.<ref>{{cite book|title= The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: In Its Three Tours of Duty|year=1911|publisher= Fifth Regiment Veteran Association|location=Boston, Massachusetts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBpCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA257&dq}}</ref>
In 1907, he sculpted ''Massachusetts'', the monument erected in [[Winchester National Cemetery]] by the Commonwealth in honor of its soldiers who died in the [[Shenandoah Valley]] during the Civil War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!328644~!6&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Massachusetts, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref> That same year the [[Massachusetts General Court]] approved funding for a monument to Massachusetts' soldiers in the [[New Bern National Cemetery]]. Mosman was chosen by a commission appointed by Governor [[Curtis Guild, Jr.]] to design and sculpt the monument.<ref>{{cite book|title= The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: In Its Three Tours of Duty|year=1911|publisher= Fifth Regiment Veteran Association|location=Boston, Massachusetts|url=https://archive.org/details/fifthregimentma00roegoog|page= [https://archive.org/details/fifthregimentma00roegoog/page/n261 257]}}</ref>


In 1908, Mosman created the memorial bronze doors for [[Dartmouth College]]'s Webster Hall.<ref>{{cite book |last= Meacham|first= Scott|date= 2008|title= Dartmouth College: an architectural tour|publisher= Princeton Architectural Press|page= 135|isbn= 9781568983486}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bronze Doors Given to Dartmouth College|newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe|date=December 13, 1908}}</ref>
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In addition to casting Mosman's works, Chicopee Bronze Works also cast [[Anne Whitney]]'s statues of [[Leif Eriksson]] (erected in [[Boston]]), a Norseman ([[Milwaukee]]), and [[Charles Sumner]] ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]), Daniel Chester French's statue of [[Thomas Starr King]] ([[San Francisco]]), Enoch Wood's statues of [[Nathan Hale]] and [[Thomas Knowlton]] (both in [[Hartford]]), [[Louis Rebisso]]'s statues of Ulysses S. Grant ([[Lincoln Park]], [[Chicago]]), [[William Henry Harrison]] ([[Cincinnati]], [[William Ordway Partridge]]'s statue of Ulysses S. Grant ([[Brooklyn]]), Abner Coleman's soldiers' monument ([[Taunton, Massachusetts]]), and N. C. Matthews' soldiers' monument ([[Jaffrey, New Hampshire]]).<ref name=Shapiro /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!4325~!0#focus|title=Colonel Thomas Knowlton Statue, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!342798~!0#focus|title=Taunton Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I1826613H8X5.304&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!201986~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!siartinventories&term=Matthews%2C+N.+C.%2C+designer.&index=AUTHOR|title=Soldiers Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref> The company founded ''The Pioneers'' for the [[Iowa State Capitol]] as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I1826613H8X5.304&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!329339~!0&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Chicopee+Bronze+Works,+founder.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=The Pioneers, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref> Rebisso's Grant statue was the largest bronze statue cast in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chicago's Grant Monument|newspaper=The Illustrated American|date=October 17, 1891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nFNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA408&lpg=PA408&dq}}</ref>

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In addition to casting Mosman's works, Chicopee Bronze Works also cast [[Anne Whitney]]'s statues of [[Leif Eriksson]] (erected in [[Boston]]), a Norseman ([[Milwaukee]]), and [[Charles Sumner]] ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]), Daniel Chester French's statue of [[Thomas Starr King]] ([[San Francisco]]), Enoch Wood's statues of [[Nathan Hale]] and [[Thomas Knowlton]] (both in [[Hartford]]), [[Louis Rebisso]]'s statues of Ulysses S. Grant ([[Lincoln Park]], [[Chicago]]), [[William Henry Harrison]] ([[Cincinnati]], [[William Ordway Partridge]]'s statue of Ulysses S. Grant ([[Brooklyn]]), Abner Coleman's soldiers' monument ([[Taunton, Massachusetts]]), N. C. Matthews' soldiers' monument ([[Jaffrey, New Hampshire]]), and [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]]' ''[[Abraham Lincoln: The Man]]''.<ref name=Shapiro /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!4325~!0#focus|title=Colonel Thomas Knowlton Statue, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!342798~!0#focus|title=Taunton Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I1826613H8X5.304&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!201986~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!siartinventories&term=Matthews%2C+N.+C.%2C+designer.&index=AUTHOR|title=Soldiers Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref name=Obituary /> The company founded ''The Pioneers'' for the [[Iowa State Capitol]] as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1I1826613H8X5.304&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!329339~!0&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Chicopee+Bronze+Works,+founder.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=The Pioneers, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref> Rebisso's Grant statue was the largest bronze statue cast in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chicago's Grant Monument|newspaper=The Illustrated American|date=October 17, 1891|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nFNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA408}}</ref>


Chicopee Bronze Works closed around 1911.<ref name=Shapiro />
Chicopee Bronze Works closed around 1911.<ref name=Shapiro />


==Later life and death==
==Later life and death==
After his foundry closed, Mosman worked for [[Gorham Manufacturing Company]] and T. F. McGann & Sons Company. At Gorham he sculpted a Spanish-American War monument for [[Gardner, Massachusetts]] and a soldiers and sailors monument for [[Ebensburg, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!328644~!6&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Spanish-American War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!340811~!0#focus|title=Soldiers and Sailors Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref> With McGann he worked on [[Dover, New Hampshire]] and [[Clinton, Massachusetts|Clinton]], [[Lawrence, Massachusetts|Lawrence]], [[Winthrop, Massachusetts|Winthrop]], [[Revere, Massachusetts|Revere]], [[Lowell, Massachusetts|Lowell]], and [[Leominster, Massachusetts]]' Spanish-American War memorials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!340627~!0#focus|title=Spanish American War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!343213~!0#focus|title=Spanish American War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!306532~!0#focus|title=Spanish War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!341869~!0#focus|title=Spanish American War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!330978~!0#focus|title=Spanish American Veterans Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!21371~!0#focus|title=The Spanish War Veteran, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!341589~!0#focus|title=Leominster Spanish American War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|accessdate=December 10, 2014}}</ref>
After his foundry closed, Mosman worked for [[Gorham Manufacturing Company]] and T. F. McGann & Sons Company. At Gorham he sculpted a Spanish–American War monument for [[Gardner, Massachusetts]], and a soldiers and sailors monument for [[Ebensburg, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=14QP2420R4665.163&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!328644~!6&ri=3&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Mosman,+Melzar+Hunt,+1845-1926,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=3|title=Spanish–American War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!340811~!0#focus|title=Soldiers and Sailors Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref> With McGann he worked on [[Dover, New Hampshire]], and [[Clinton, Massachusetts|Clinton]], [[Lawrence, Massachusetts|Lawrence]], [[Winthrop, Massachusetts|Winthrop]], [[Revere, Massachusetts|Revere]], [[Lowell, Massachusetts|Lowell]], and [[Leominster, Massachusetts]]' Spanish–American War memorials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!340627~!0#focus|title=Spanish American War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!343213~!0#focus|title=Spanish American War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!306532~!0#focus|title=Spanish War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!341869~!0#focus|title=Spanish American War Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!330978~!0#focus|title=Spanish American Veterans Memorial, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!21371~!0#focus|title=The Spanish War Veteran, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!341589~!0#focus|title=Leominster Spanish American War Monument, (sculpture).|work=Art Inventories Catalog|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=December 10, 2014}}</ref>


Mosman's final work was Chicopee High School's [[World War I]] memorial.<ref name=Jendrysik /> He died on January 11, 1923.<ref name=Shapiro />
Mosman's final work was Chicopee High School's [[World War I]] memorial.<ref name=Jendrysik /> He died on January 11, 1926, at his home in Chicopee.<ref name=Obituary>{{cite news|title=Melzar H. Mosman, Sculptor, 81, Dies|newspaper=The Boston Daily Globe|date=January 13, 1926}}</ref>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Middletown, CT - Union Park 03.jpg|Middletown Soldiers' Monument
File:Middletown, CT - Union Park 03.jpg|Middletown Soldiers' Monument
File:"Minuteman" Statue, Concord, MA.jpg|Minuteman Statue, Concord, Massachusetts
File:"Minuteman" Statue, Concord, MA.jpg|Minuteman Statue, Concord, Massachusetts, by [[Daniel Chester French|D.C.French]]
File:Saugus Center and Town Hall.jpg|Saugus Civil War Monument
File:Saugus Center and Town Hall.jpg|Saugus Civil War Monument
File:Soldiers Monument, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Conn, by David W. Wilson.jpg|Bridgeport Soldiers Monument
File:Soldiers Monument, Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Conn, by David W. Wilson.jpg|Bridgeport Soldiers Monument
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File:Gettysburg National Military Park 43.JPG|10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument
File:Gettysburg National Military Park 43.JPG|10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument
File:MASSACHUSETTS MONUMENT, SECTION 8, FRONT ELEVATION. VIEW TO NORTHWEST. - New Bern National Cemetery, 1711 National Avenue, New Bern, Craven County, NC HALS NC-1-26.tif|Massachusetts Monument, New Bern National Cemetery
File:MASSACHUSETTS MONUMENT, SECTION 8, FRONT ELEVATION. VIEW TO NORTHWEST. - New Bern National Cemetery, 1711 National Avenue, New Bern, Craven County, NC HALS NC-1-26.tif|Massachusetts Monument, New Bern National Cemetery
File:Spanish-American War Monument (Gardner, Massachusetts) - DSC00835.JPG|Gardner Spanish-American War Monument
File:Spanish-American War Monument (Gardner, Massachusetts) - DSC00835.JPG|Gardner Spanish–American War Monument
File:The Spanish War Veteran - Lawrence, MA - DSC03642.JPG|The Spanish War Veteran, Lawrence, Massachusetts
File:The Spanish War Veteran - Lawrence, MA - DSC03642.JPG|The Spanish War Veteran, Lawrence, Massachusetts
File:Spanish-American War Monument - Revere, Massachusetts - DSC04433.JPG|The Spanish War Veteran, Revere, Massachusetts
File:Spanish-American War Monument - Winthrop, Massachusetts - DSC04339.JPG|The Spanish War Veteran, Winthrop, Massachusetts
File:Chicopee War Mem.jpg|Chicopee World War I Memorial
File:Chicopee War Mem.jpg|Chicopee World War I Memorial
</gallery>
</gallery>


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 23:34, 31 October 2024

Melzar Hunt Mosman
BornMarch 10, 1843
Chicopee, Massachusetts
DiedJanuary 11, 1926
Chicopee, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Known forSculpture
Notable workRevolutionary War Door

Melzar Hunt Mosman (March 10, 1843 – January 11, 1926) was an American sculptor who made a number of Civil War and Spanish–American War monuments in Massachusetts.

Early life

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Mosman was born on March 10, 1843, in Chicopee, Massachusetts.[1] His father, Silas Mosman, ran the Ames Manufacturing Company's bronze foundry. The foundry made statues and monuments, including the statue of Benjamin Franklin at Old City Hall and the bronze doors for the east wing of the United States Capitol. The Mosman family had been involved in metal work since they arrived in Massachusetts in 1632.[2]

In 1860 Mosman went to work at Ames, where he produced drawings for presentation swords.[1] He graduated from Chicopee High School in 1862.[2]

Military service

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A few weeks after graduating high school, Mosman joined the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, where he saw combat in the Newbern, North Carolina, area.[1][2] He was transferred to an engineering unit that was tasked with preparing for the Siege of Vicksburg. He mustered out in 1864 after contracting a near fatal fever.[2]

Sculpting

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Ames Manufacturing Company

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After the leaving the Union Army, Mosman returned to the Ames foundry, where he cast cannons for use in the war.[3] In 1867 he traveled to Paris to work in a foundry there. He later studied casting methods in Italy and the German Empire.[1][2]

From 1870 to 1871 he sculpted Westfield, Massachusetts' Civil War Memorial. It was dedicated on May 30, 1871.[4]

On January 9, 1874, Mosman was paid $10,000 by Middletown, Connecticut, to sculpt a Civil War monument.[5]

In 1874, Mosman and his father assisted Daniel Chester French with the minuteman statue at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The statue was unveiled by President Ulysses S. Grant on the centenary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1876).[2]

Mosman designed a Civil War monument for Henry E. Hone of Saugus, Massachusetts, which was erected in the rotary at Saugus Center in 1875.[6][7]

Mosman designed and sculpted Bridgeport, Connecticut's soldiers' monument. The monument was the largest and most expensive in the state and Mosman was said to have received $18,500 for his work. It was dedicated on August 17, 1876.[8]

Mosman designed and cast the Fireman's Monument in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut, which was dedicated on July 9, 1877.[8][9]

In 1883 he sculpted Northampton Remembers, bronze statues of a Civil War soldier and sailor that adorn the entrance of Memorial Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts.[10][11]

Chicopee Bronze Works

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In 1884, Mosman left Ames after a dispute and started his own foundry, the Chicopee Bronze Works.[1]

Mosman did the bronze sculptures (three muskets, a drum, knapsack, cartridge box, and canteen) for the 10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument. The monument marks the position of the 10th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment on the Gettysburg Battlefield on July 3, 1863. It was dedicated on October 6, 1885.[12] That same year, another one of his sculptures, a civil war monument, was erected in Court Square in Springfield, Massachusetts.[11]

Mosman modeled the bronze statues for Brattleboro, Vermont's Civil War Monument. The monument was dedicated on Bunker Hill Day (June 17), 1887.[13]

In 1889, Mosman sculpted the bronze figure for Winchendon, Massachusetts' Civil War Soldiers' Monument.[14] That same year he, Caspar Buberl, and Stephen J. O'Kelly completed Nashua, New Hampshire's Soldiers and Sailors Monument.[15]

From 1901 to 1902, Mosman designed and cast a 7+1⁄2-foot statue of Walter Harriman that was placed in Warren, New Hampshire.[16]

From 1903 to 1905, the foundry cast Thomas Crawford and William H. Rinehart's Revolutionary War Door for the U.S. Capitol building.[1][17]

In 1906, Mosman sculpted the Spanish American Veterans Memorial erected by the Friends of the Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in Memorial Square, Springfield, Massachusetts.[18]

In 1907, he sculpted Massachusetts, the monument erected in Winchester National Cemetery by the Commonwealth in honor of its soldiers who died in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War.[19] That same year the Massachusetts General Court approved funding for a monument to Massachusetts' soldiers in the New Bern National Cemetery. Mosman was chosen by a commission appointed by Governor Curtis Guild, Jr. to design and sculpt the monument.[20]

In 1908, Mosman created the memorial bronze doors for Dartmouth College's Webster Hall.[21][22]

In addition to casting Mosman's works, Chicopee Bronze Works also cast Anne Whitney's statues of Leif Eriksson (erected in Boston), a Norseman (Milwaukee), and Charles Sumner (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Daniel Chester French's statue of Thomas Starr King (San Francisco), Enoch Wood's statues of Nathan Hale and Thomas Knowlton (both in Hartford), Louis Rebisso's statues of Ulysses S. Grant (Lincoln Park, Chicago), William Henry Harrison (Cincinnati, William Ordway Partridge's statue of Ulysses S. Grant (Brooklyn), Abner Coleman's soldiers' monument (Taunton, Massachusetts), N. C. Matthews' soldiers' monument (Jaffrey, New Hampshire), and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Abraham Lincoln: The Man.[1][23][24][25][26] The company founded The Pioneers for the Iowa State Capitol as well.[27] Rebisso's Grant statue was the largest bronze statue cast in the United States.[28]

Chicopee Bronze Works closed around 1911.[1]

Later life and death

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After his foundry closed, Mosman worked for Gorham Manufacturing Company and T. F. McGann & Sons Company. At Gorham he sculpted a Spanish–American War monument for Gardner, Massachusetts, and a soldiers and sailors monument for Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.[29][30] With McGann he worked on Dover, New Hampshire, and Clinton, Lawrence, Winthrop, Revere, Lowell, and Leominster, Massachusetts' Spanish–American War memorials.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37]

Mosman's final work was Chicopee High School's World War I memorial.[2] He died on January 11, 1926, at his home in Chicopee.[26]

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  • Middletown Soldiers' Monument
    Middletown Soldiers' Monument
  • Minuteman Statue, Concord, Massachusetts, by D.C.French
    Minuteman Statue, Concord, Massachusetts, by D.C.French
  • Saugus Civil War Monument
    Saugus Civil War Monument
  • Bridgeport Soldiers Monument
    Bridgeport Soldiers Monument
  • Springfield Civil War Monument
    Springfield Civil War Monument
  • 10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument
    10th Massachusetts Infantry Monument
  • Massachusetts Monument, New Bern National Cemetery
    Massachusetts Monument, New Bern National Cemetery
  • Gardner Spanish–American War Monument
    Gardner Spanish–American War Monument
  • The Spanish War Veteran, Lawrence, Massachusetts
    The Spanish War Veteran, Lawrence, Massachusetts
  • The Spanish War Veteran, Revere, Massachusetts
    The Spanish War Veteran, Revere, Massachusetts
  • The Spanish War Veteran, Winthrop, Massachusetts
    The Spanish War Veteran, Winthrop, Massachusetts
  • Chicopee World War I Memorial
    Chicopee World War I Memorial

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