Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 1, 1848, raised in New York City, and died on August 3, 1907, in Cornish, New Hampshire. His spouse was Augusta Fisher Homer Saint-Gaudens, and they had one son, Homer Saint-Gaudens. Augustas Saint-Gaudens was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. He achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. Saint-Gaudens created works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln: The Man, and grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals: General John Logan Memorial in Chicago’s Grant Park and William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of New York’s Central Park. In addition, he created the popular historicist representation of The Puritan. For more detailed go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens#
