Background
Bissell, George Edwin was born on February 16, 1839 in New Preston, Litchfield Company, Connecticut, United States. Son of Hiram and Isabella (Jones) Bissell.
Bissell, George Edwin was born on February 16, 1839 in New Preston, Litchfield Company, Connecticut, United States. Son of Hiram and Isabella (Jones) Bissell.
Educated Northville (Connecticut) Academy, and the Gunnery, Washington, Connecticut. Private 23d Connecticut Volumes, 1862-1863. Acting assistant p.-m.
United States Navy, 1863-1865.
Father of George Welton B. In marble business with father and brother at Poughkeepsie, New York, 1866. Studied art, Paris, Rome and Florence, 1875-1876. Had studio in Paris at different times, for about 6 years, between 1884-1896.
Studio in Florence, Italy, 1903-1905 and 1907-1909.
Public monuments and statues: Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, and statue Colonel Chatfield, Waterbury, Connecticut. Portrait statue General Horatio Gates on Saratoga Battle Monument.
Chancellor John Watts and Colonel Abraham de Peyster, New New York Abraham Lincoln, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Relief, Burns and Highland Mary, Ayr, Scotland.
Chancellor James Kent, Congressional Library. President Arthur, New New York Lycurgus, Appellate Court, New New York
Group “The Navy.” Colonnade Navy Architecture, New New York
Statue “Hospitality,” Buffalo Exposition, 1901. Bronze statues Admiral Farragut and General Sherman, groups, Science and Music, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Statue of Lincoln, Clermont, Iowa. Marble bust and bronze statuette in Metropolitan Museum, New New York
Marble bust Archbishop Corrigan, New York City.
Bronze statue Honorary John H. Starin, Fultonville, New New York Bronze statue Samuel Sloan, president Doctorate.&L. Railroad Colossal bronze bust of Admiral John A. Dahlgren in Prospect Park, Philadelphia Honorary mention, Paris Exposition, 1900.
Silver medal, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Elton Memorial Vase, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1905.
Home: Mount Vernon, New New York
Married Mary East. Welton, August 16, 1865.