John S. Conway, an artist and sculptor, was born February 21, 1852, in Dayton, Ohio.

He received his artistic training at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ecole Julien, and at the École des Beaux-Arts.

While Conway was in Paris, Robert William Vonnoh, a fellow art student, painted his portrait.

The bronze sculpture titled The Victorious Charge was completed in Rome and shipped to Milwaukee.

[9] Biographical information can also be found in this newspaper article: "To Wisconsin's Soldier Sons", Evening Wisconsin, June 28, 1989, and "Who Was Who in American Art: Compiled from the Original Thirty-Four Volumes of American Art Annual—Who's Who in Art, Biographies of American Artists Active from 1898 to 1947" by Peter H. Falk (pub.