Framingham

The Soldier by Martin Milmore, 1872
This is a Bay State sculpture in many, many ways. The sculptor Martin Milmore emigrated with his family from Sligo, Ireland, to Boston in1851, when he was seven. He graduated from the Latin School in 1860 and then took an apprenticeship with local sculptor Thomas Ball of Charlestown. As a well-known artist, Milmore created this Civil War soldier for Framingham. He shows the man wearing Blue Kersey army cloth, a material made in Framingham at the Saxonville Mills. The molten bronze was poured at the Ames Foundry in Chicopee. In 2000, local Brownies and other school children helped preserve this artwork in honor of their town’s 300th birthday.