Henry W. Lawton statue dedication photographs

Description:	Henry Ware Lawton, the first U.S. general killed in overseas action, was raised in Indiana. He fought in the U.S. Civil War, Apache Wars, Spanish-American War, and finally, the Philippine-American War during which he was killed. On May 30, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt visited Indianapolis, Indiana for the dedication of the Henry W. Lawton statue in front of the old Marion County Courthouse. Roosevelt also had a luncheon at the home of his vice president, Charles W. Fairbanks, along with local luminaries. The statues was sculpted by Andrew O’Connor in 1906 and later moved and rededicated in the Sunken Garden Garfield Park in 1915.
Origin:	1907-05-30
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll13/id/5200
Collection:	Indiana State Library Photograph Collections
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Geography:	Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	photographs Lawton, Henry Ware, 1843-1899 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 statues dedication to public use courthouses county courthouses Marion County (Ind.) Indianapolis (Ind.) authors poets politicians presidents dwellings Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918 Fairbanks, Cornelia Cole, -1913 Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 Hanly, J. Frank (James Frank), 1863-1920 New, Harry S. (Harry Stewart), 1858-1937 Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947 Overstreet, Jesse, 1859-1910 Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 Taggart, Thomas, 1856-1929 English, William E. (William Eastin), 1850-1926

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