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Paul Fjelde Sculptor 
Bust of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial Raised by 
Norwegian Americans in Frogner Park, Christiania, in 1914 
ness of the likeness and the realistic truth of the pose. It is Ole Bull 
at his best—dress, manner, violin, and everything. Suffering from 
acute inflammation of the ear, the artist barely lived to put the finish¬ 
ing touches to this statue. His condition in fact was aggravated by 
the devotion with which he applied himself to the work, and he died 
a few days after its completion. 
With rare courage Jacob Fjelde’s widow settled with a brood 
of four little children on a homestead near Bismarck in North Dakota. 
Here her son Paul, born in 1892, grew up under conditions, it would 
