Roland H. Perry, Artist

"Perry was a master of both painting and sculpture, and he began his studies at the Art Students' League in New York City at the age of sixteen. Three years later he traveled to Paris to study with Paul Delance at the Academie Delecluse. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890 as the only American student admitted that year. Perry remained in Paris for six years, producing both paintings and sculpture.

Returning to the United States, he was commissioned to sculpt bas-reliefs at the Library of Congress. He also created a frieze for the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City. Perry is also credited with two monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park — the statue of Brigadier General George Greene on Culp's Hill, and Brigadier General James Wadsworth on McPherson's Ridge. In all, Perry designed and created over thirty major pieces of art, and he continued to work prolifically until his death on October 27, 1941."

[source:  Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee ]

Commonwealth

Kentucky sends Mrs. John B Castleman, Aged Suffragist

KENTUCKY SENDS AGED SUFFRAGIST

Mrs. John B. Castleman, 79 Years Old, on Democratic Executive Committee.

By a Staff Correspondent of THE SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD.

San Francisco, June 30. - Probably the oldest of the women delegates is Mrs. John B. Castleman of Louisville, Ky. She is the widow of Gen. Castleman, a celebrated figure in his day, and the mother of famous beauties. she is 79 years old, and as a member of the executive committee of the National Democratic Committee was at the rooms where Mrs. Bass presided to-day.

"I'm so glad I could come. I think this is to be the most important convention since the civil war," she said to-day. "Sometimes I'm tempted to say since 1776. We Democrats have so much to do if we are to frame a successful platform that will fulfill the needs of this afterwar period."

Mrs. Castleman ceased talking as a tall, well groomed, beautiful woman approached.

"That is my daughter", she said. The daughter looked a bit worried.

But after her daughter disappeared, enthusiasm overcame Mrs. Castleman.

"No, perhaps I should not talk, but I've been interested for such a long time that it's difficult not to appear interested.

"It seems to me that I was born in politics. I've been in them, as they say, for a long time. I fought for years for suffrage in my Kentucky State. It was one of the hardest fights for that principle in the nation.

"The greatest drawback was the negro women. That was the argument that the anti-suffrage men always used. They didn't want the negro women's vote released and they didn't want the burden of educating the women negro vote, but we won in time."

Besides a long history in public life Mrs. Castleman has a story, one of real Southern romance. The late Castleman, her husband, was a Confederate officer during the civil war. It was Gen. Castleman who, with two other Confederate officers, released Southern prisoners held at Fort Sullivan in Indiana. For this activity Gen. Castleman was banished from the country and later ordered executed by the Northern force.

"It was Lincoln's hand that saved him from death on the scaffold," Mrs. Castleman said. "I have the President's letter at home; I am very proud of it." 

Mrs. John B Castleman, chairman of the delegation representing Kentucky Equal Rights Association

[caption] Left to Right - Mrs. Lafon [Martina Grubbs] Riker, Harrodburg, president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Laura Clay, chairman of the delegation opposing ratification of the Susan B. Anthony amendment; Mrs. John B. [Alice Barbee] Castleman, chairman of the delegation representing the Kentucky Equal Rights Association; Mrs. Harrison Gardner [Elizabeth D. Gibson] Foster, member of Miss Clay's delegation; Mrs. Edmund M. [Josephine Fowler] Post, Paducah, member of the executive board of the National Woman's Suffrage Association and member of the delegation urging ratification of the Susan B. Anthony amendment.