Frederick Moynihan was an American

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, born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1843. He died in his

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studio on January 9, 1910. Moynihan studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in

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before immigrating to the United States. He is best remembered for creating monuments commemorating the American

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Public monuments

* HMS Eurydice, Shanklin Cemetery, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 1880 *''Pennsylvania's Ninth "Lochiel" Veteran Cavalry Monument'',

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1894 *Company F, 1st US (Vermont) Sharpshooters Monument - Gettysburg, PA 1889 *Vermont Sharpshooters, Companies E & H 2nd Regiment United States Sharpshooters - Gettysburg, PA 1889 *13th Vermont Infantry Monument Lieutenant

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- Gettysburg, PA 1899 *''Georgia State Monument''. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1899 *''

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Monument'', Barry Square, Hartford, Connecticut, 1900 *''General

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'', equestrian, Syracuse, New York, 1905 *''

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'', equestrian,

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, Richmond, Virginia, 1907

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References

*DuPriest, Jr., James E. and Douglas O. Tice, Jr. ''Monument & Boulevard: Richmond's Grand Avenues'', Richmond Discoveries, Richmond, Virginia, 1996 *Falk, Peter Hastings, Editor, ''Who Was Who in American Art'', Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985 *Hardin, Evemarie, ''Syracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods'', Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, 1993 *Kerr, Jack, ''Monuments and Markers of the 29 States Engaged at Chickamauga and Chattanooga'', Collegedale, TN: The College Press, n.d. *Mackay, James, ''The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze'', Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977 *Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 {{DEFAULTSORT:Moynihan, Frederick 19th-century American sculptors 1843 births 1910 deaths British emigrants to the United States 20th-century American sculptors