Edward Kemeys

[4] The Kemeys family lived in Savannah, but moved back to New York City following the death of his mother in 1843.

When the American Civil War broke out, Kemeys enlisted at age 19, volunteering for the 65th New York Infantry Regiment.

Kemeys re-enlisted as a commissioned officer in the 4th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, Company H, where he attained the rank of captain.

Among his other important works are “Panther and Deer,” and “Coyote and Raven.” A colossal head of a buffalo for the facade of the station of the Pacific railroad at St. Louis, Missouri, which was cast in bronze in New York in August, 1887, was the largest work of its kind that had been done in the United States.

Another bronze statue of a panther named "Still Hunt," is permanently situated on a rock flanking East Drive in Central Park in New York City.