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was pulled down by a group of vandals in 1900 and buried under the ground of a planned sidewalk. The next day the sidewalk was poured and the object was entombed. However, when new sidewalks were laid in the early 2000s, the statue was not found. All surviving fountains have since been disconnected.
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has been called "the city's ugliest statue" and spurred city councils across the country to set up fine arts commissions to screen such gifts. Along with this, many of the fountains were installed incorrectly leading to a hot, high velocity water jet rather than the cool slow stream promised by
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The diaries of Cogswell and his wife Caroline cover 37 years (1860–1897) and are an unusually long and consistent record of busy personal and financial life in the western United States. They are kept at the
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eccentric dentist from San Francisco who made a fortune from real estate and mining stocks, donated a life-sized zinc statue of himself holding a glass of water in one hand
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Cogswell also designed the statue for his own tomb, a 400-ton granite tower, complete with fountains and statues of Hope, Faith, Charity and Temperance. He is buried in
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for every 100 saloons across the United States, and many were built. These drinking fountains were elaborate structures built of granite that Cogswell designed himself.
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Although the D.C. statue survived mostly unscathed, the San Francisco one was torn down by "a lynch party of self-professed art lovers" including
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started, the Cogswell family decided to go west. They did not do any mining themselves. He offered dentistry services to miners and invested in
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and mining stocks, becoming one of San Francisco's first millionaires. A pioneer in his field, Cogswell designed the vacuum method of securing
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Cogswell. Many of the fountains were later found to have bacterial contamination and were subsequently shut down.
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These grandiose statues were not well received by the communities where they were placed.
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Cogswell believed that if people had access to cool drinking water they wouldn't consume
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and was the first in California to perform a dental operation using
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Elizabeth J. Johnson; James L. Wheaton; Susan L. Reed (2003).
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Destruction of Cogswell's fountain in San Francisco, 1894
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Index

San Francisco temperance fountain

Tolland, Connecticut
temperance movement
Cogswell College
San Jose, California
Another campus
Everett, Washington
Tolland, Connecticut
New England
cotton mills
Providence, Rhode Island
California Gold Rush
real estate
dental plates
chloroform




Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Washington, D.C.
alcoholic beverages
temperance fountain
Washington, D.C.
Tompkins Square Park
New York City
Washington Square, San Francisco
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

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