E. M. Viquesney

[3]Viquesney wrote a manual on stonecutting: The Pneumatic Tool: Its Care and Used (1904), which was published as a series of articles in The Monumental News, then republished in book form.

[5] Viquesney married Cora Barnes in 1904, and the following year began work as a designer and carver for C. J. Clark Monuments in Americus, Georgia.

[7] Sculptor Frederick Hibbard modeled the four bronze military figures, and W. H. Mullins Company provided the hammered copper Goddess of Victory atop the monument's dome.

[8] In 1913, as the 50th anniversary of the end of the Civil War approached, The Blue and the Gray Association of America proposed that a Peace Memorial be built in Fitzgerald, Georgia, the town where Confederate President Jefferson Davis had hidden from Union troops.

There are four doors, the art glass over each door bearing an inscription – that on the north to the Grand Army of the Republic, and that on the south to the Southern Veterans, and those on the east and west to the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Woman's Relief Corps.Inside the monument there will be life-size statues of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln facing each other on opposite sides, and glass cases for war relics will occupy corresponding positions on the two opposite sides.The immense bronze statues over the north entrance represent Lee and Grant shaking hands, and behind them is the Spirit of Peace.

Viquesney returned to Americus, Georgia in February 1916 as chief designer for the Schneider Marble Works, the home town rival of Clark Monuments.

[13] Hundreds of mass-produced replicas were installed in front of American city halls and courthouses and in public parks and cemeteries.

Viquesney had sold his entire interest in his Doughboy to Rylander in 1922, probably to raise cash to settle against a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against him by American Art Bronze Foundry of Chicago, IL.

[22][23] The Owen County Heritage and Culture Center, formerly the Spencer Carnegie Library, features a small museum of E. M. Viquesney's statuettes and miniatures.