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John Crookshanks King, an American sculptor, born at Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, Oct. 11, 1806. He was educated as a practical machinist, emigrated to the United States in 1829, and was employed for several years in Cincinnati and Louisville as superintendent of a factory. In 1834, at the suggestion of Hiram Powers, he made a model in clay of the head of his wife, and the success with which the work was accomplished encouraged him to adopt the profession of a sculptor. From 1837 to 1840 he resided in New Orleans, and modelled a number of busts of public men and made cameo likenesses. Subsequently he removed to Boston, where he now lives. He has executed several busts of Daniel Webster, also those of John Quincy Adams, Dr. Samuel Woodward, Professor Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other men prominent in public life or literature. Since 1860 he has executed for the city of Boston a bust of Chief Justice Shaw; but with the exception of a few busts of private individuals, he has mainly been engaged on cameos of Webster, Franklin, Grier-son, Audubon, Com. Morris, J. Q. Adams, Horace Greeley, Sumner, Lincoln, Washington, and others, and is now (June, 1874) executing a cameo of Agassiz.
 
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