DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was so many things to New York: Governor, Senator, Mayor and instrumental in the construction of the Erie Canal. Clinton also plays a large part in Green-Wood's history as it was Clinton's reburial in Green-Wood -he was originally buried in the Clinton Cemetery in New Britain, NY - that became Green-Wood's first major tourist attraction. This photo shows the exquisitely detailed full-length bronze sculpture, by Henry Kirke Brown, in which Clinton is dressed in contemporary clothing along with a Roman toga draped around his waist and over his left shoulder. An archival shot of the statue shows it was originally surrounded by a fence,