Robert Dale Owen Memorial

[5] The present-day memorial, which includes only the remaining pedestal, is installed on the Statehouse grounds, facing the southern entrance to the building.

[5] The Association also offered to send its members to meetings of Indiana women's clubs to speak about the life and legacy of Robert Dale Owen in an effort to help raise funds for the memorial.

[5] In their final meeting on December 30, 1912, Association member Julia Sharpe presented her official record of the work accomplished by the group.

The Association gave a bound volume of the report to the Indiana State Library for future reference.

[13] Goodwin also studied sculpture at the Art Student's League in New York City with the sculptor Daniel Chester French.

[9] A year later, in 1930, the Henry County Historical Society planned to commission a memorial for their grounds dedicated to Frances Goodwin and modeled after a bird fountain she had created at the Newcastle Public Library.

[13] Frances Goodwin's first commission was for Education, a sculpture displayed in the Indiana building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893,[9] and earned an honorable mention for the work.

[13] Goodwin's other works include a marble statue of Schuyler Colfax in the Senate gallery at the U.S. Capitol and a bronze memorial of Captain Everet Benjamin in New York.

[13] After living in Paris for a few years, she returned to the United States, when she won the competition for the commission of the Robert Dale Owen Memorial.

[9] Goodwin opened a temporary studio in Indianapolis, where she created the clay mold of the future artwork;[3] however, she returned to Paris to cast the final bronze bust.