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where it may now be seen. During the following years he pur- 

 sued his art in Washington, working in marble and in bronze, at 

 first assisting his father, later establishing a studio for himself. 

 A number of statues and monuments in Washington attest his 

 skill. The bust of John C. Calhoun in the Senate Chamber was 

 from his chisel, so also is the bust of Admiral Dahlgren in the 

 possession of the government. The latter was reproduced in 

 bronze for Mrs. Dahlgren. In the grounds of the White House 

 and in some of the parks of the capital his works may be seen. 

 One of the tasks which he performed while in Washington, which 

 attracted much attention at the time and involved great physical 

 risk, was the restoration of the figure of the Goddess of Liberty 

 on the dome of the Capitol, originally modeled in plaster by 

 Crawford and executed in bronze by Clark Mills, his father. The 

 figure had been broken, some of the pieces had fallen out, and it 

 was in danger of collapsing. Mr. Theodore A. Mills, was raised 

 to the figure by means of derricks, swinging in which he made the 

 necessary casts and from them the pieces, which he restored to 

 their places, securing them so as to prevent further accident. 



Subsequently, when it was decided at the United States National 

 Museum to prepare and execute a number of groups representing 

 the rapidly vanishing Indian tribes of the continent, he was em- 

 ployed by the Bureau of Ethnology to make figures and portraits 

 to be utilized in the preparation of these groups, many of which 

 still adorn the United States National Museum. In this work he 

 was extremely skilful, and in 1898, the Carnegie Museum, in order 

 to display the ethnological collections which had come into its 

 possession, invited Mr, Mills to come to Pittsburgh to prepare 

 similar figures for the use of this Museum. His engagement 

 was originally temporary, but he made himself so useful that he 

 was continued in the employment of the Museum until the time of 

 his death. 



He was a remarkably skilful modeler, familiar with all the 

 devices of his craft. He worked not only at the various groups 

 of Indians, but made himself of great assistance in the Section of 

 Paleontology, helping to model many of the restorations of extinct 

 animals under the direction of the writer of these lines and his 



