Leonard Volk
Leonard Wells Volk was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures.
Volk was born at Wellstown , Hamilton County, New York to Garrett and Elizabeth Volk. He first followed the trade of a marble cutter with his father in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where the family moved.
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