Jean Miner Coburn

[5] Her statue Hope was among the first that met with recognition and was placed in the McCowen Oral School, in Englewood, Chicago.

[5] During the Exposition, Miner and Helen Farnsworth Mears were both named artists-in-residence at the Wisconsin Building.

At that time, Miner was commissioned to create a work of art representing the state.

The result was her most famous work, Forward, which was later given the honor of a prominent position at the Wisconsin State Capitol.

[3] Jean Pond Miner married lawyer Alonzo John Coburn in 1896.

Replica of Coburn's 1893 Forward statue in Madison, Wisconsin (original moved in 1996 for preservation)