Ives

term, he along with Toorabs resigned his seat
on Jan. 28.

In the balloting for Confederate States sena-
tor in November 1861 Iverson led on several
ballots for the second seat, but on the fifth ballot
he withdrew, and Toombs was elected. When
Toombs refused the seat, Iverson wrote a public
letter declining, under the circumstances, to be
considered for appointment by the governor
(Avery, post, p. 243). Aged sixty-three, he re-
sumed the practice of law in Columbus, taking
no active part, military or political, in the affairs
of the Confederacy, though his son and namesake
(Feb. 4, iS29-Mar. 31, 1911) was a brigadier-
general in the Confederate army. After the war
he moved to Macon, Ga., where he lived a re-
tired life until his death. He was twice married;
first, to Caroline Goode Holt, who bore him two
children, and after her death to Julia Frances
Forsyth, daughter of the statesman John For-
syth [gr.v.], who also bore him two children.

[Georgia newspapers for the period, especially the
Columbus Sun, afford material. See also W. J. Northen,
Men of Mark in Ga., vol. II (1910); J. H. Martin,
Columbus, Go. (2 vols. in i, 1874-75); Nancy Telfair,
A Hist, of Columbus, Ga. (1929), pp. 95-100; James
Stacy, Hist, of the Midway Congreg. Church^, Liberty
County, Go. (n.d.), pp. 97-98; Herbert Fielder, A
Sketch of the Life and Times and Speeches of Joseph
E. Brown (1883); I. W. Avery, The Hist, of the State
of Ga., 1850-81 (1881), pp. 104-06, 243 J "Correspond-
ence of Toombs, Stephens and Cobb," ecL by U. B.
Phillips, in Ann. Report Am. Hist. Asso., vol. II (1913) ;
Atlanta Constitution, Mar. 7, 1873. Certain personal
information has been furnished by Dr. Alfred Iverson
Branham, a grandson of Iverson.] H.J. P__e,Jr.

IVES, CHAUNCEY BRADLEY (Dec. 14,
i8io-Aug. 2, 1894), sculptor, scion of a family
distinguished in Connecticut annals, was born in
Hamden, near New Haven, Conn. One of the
seven children of a farmer, he early felt repug-
nance for farm w'ork. He was in fact physically
unfitted for its rigors, having a tendency toward
tuberculosis, from which four of his brothers
and sisters died. Having shown skill in wood-
carving, he was apprenticed at sixteen to R. E.
Northrop, a carver of New Haven. It is said
that later he worked under Hezekiah Augur
[q.v.], pioneer carver-sculptor. Certainly he ac-
quired the wood-carver's point of view, for his
early attempts in sculpture Were made in the "di-
rect-action" method natural to a worker in wood
and pursued by Attgur in his marble-carving.
Ambitious to become a sculptor, young Ives went
to Boston, locked himself in his room to show
what he could do unassisted, and produced direct-
ly from marble, without recourse to a clay or
plaster model, a bust which was regarded as
creditable. Other attempts followed. One of
&es€, a head of a boy, William Hoppin, was
shown in a jeweler's window in Boston and

Ives

brought him orders. In 1841, while he was tak-
ing plaster casts at Meriden, Conn,, a doctor
warned him of "decline." He scoffed at the cau-
tion but three years later found himself ordered
south for his health. He thereupon borrowed
from a friend the means to go to Italy. He re-
mained in Florence seven years, meanwhile, since
he had already some reputation for his portrait
busts, earning enough to support himself and
pay his debt. To this period belong his busts of
Prof. Benjamin Silliman (New York Historical
Society) and of Ithiel Towne (Yale Art Gal-
lery). In 1851 he removed to Rome, his head-
quarters until his death in that city.

Ives returned frequently but only briefly to
America. In 1855, bringing with him his eight
new statues, among them "Pandora," "Cupid
with his Net," "Shepherd Boy," "Rebecca,"
"Bacchante," and "Sans Souci," he came to New
York, and there opened a studio, intending to re-
main two years. In two months, however, he had
disposed of his output. Events of a later visit in-
cluded his marriage in 1860 to Maria Louisa
Davis, daughter of Benjamin Wilson Davis, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. Their family life was spent in
Rome, where six of their seven children were
born. In 1872 his marble figures of Jonathan
Trumbull and of Roger Sherman, sent by Con-
necticut, were placed in the Statuary Hall of the
Capitol, Washington, D. C. On the fagade of the
Capitol at Hartford, Conn., is his marble figure
of Trumbull, and in the grounds of Trinity Col-
lege, in the same city, his bronze of Bishop
Thomas C. Brownell. His portrait busts of Gen-
eral Scott and of William H. Seward were shown
at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876. His last
public work, a bronze historical group, "White
Captive and Indian," completed in Rome in 1886,
was unveiled in Lincoln Park, New'ark, N. J.,
the year after his death. His sculpture, highly
salable in its time, has come to be regarded as
weak and trifling. Lorado Taft (The History of
American Sculpture, ed. 1924, p. 113) concludes
that it "did no harm, ... it came because it was
precisely suited to its day."

[H. W* French, Art and Artists in Conn. (1879), p.
82 ; H. T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists (1867), p.
582; Chas. E. Fairman, Art and Artists of the Capitol
of the U. S. of America (1927).]

IVES, ELI (Feb. 7, 1778-Oct 8, 1861), physi-
cian, was born in New Haven, Conn., the son of
Levi Ives, a physician, and Lydia (Augur) Ives.
He prepared for college under the tuition of the
Rev. Ammi Robbins of Norfolk, Conn., and en-
tered Yale in 1795, graduating in 1799. For a
period of fifteen months following his graduation
he was rector of the Hopkins Grammar School
in New Haven and began the study of medicine

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