In due time…..when I shall have paid the debt of Nature, my remains will rest here in your midst with those of my kindred and neighbors. It is possible they may be unhonored, neglected, spurned! But, perhaps, years hence …..some wandering stranger, some lone exile may erect over them a humble stone, and thereon, this epitaph, “He was Faithful.”
William Henry Seward's Bust
c. 1930
Bronzed over white plaster bust of William. Henry Seward as Secretary of State. Sculpted by Daniel Chester French. French was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for his design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The plaster cast of the original bronze bust resides in Florida, NY, the birthplace of William H. Seward.
