Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants (C)
(b. 1846) Born in Aberdeen, he began life as a
gardener, studying with Alexander Brodie and John Rhind in London and
Paris. He immigrated to Philadelphia in 1868, where he created the statue
of William Penn atop the city’s famous city hall in 1894. Standing some
500 feet above the city’s streets, the statue is 37 feet high, weighs 26
tons, and is the largest on a building anywhere.
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