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  • Other Works by E. M. Viquesney
    • 1905-1920: Civil War Memorials
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    • 1916: Magazine Article Illustration
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    • 1936: "Women of the Confederacy"
    • 1938: "Lincoln as an Indiana Boy">
      • Guido Rebechini's Lincoln Lookalike
    • 1939: The Viquesney Pavilion
    • 1940: "Creation"
    • 1942: "The Yanks Again" and "Remember Pearl Harbor"
    • 1946: "Comrades", Viquesney's Last Piece
    • Career-long Output: Plaques, Grave Markers
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Picture
Photo provided by Jerry Godby,
P.R.I.D.E. in Logan County, Inc.

LOGAN, WEST VIRGINIA

N 37° 51.031 / W 081° 59.728

Copyright version 1920, pressed copper.

Smithsonian Art Inventory Control Number: 47260123.

Located in War Memorial Park on Midelburg Island grounds of Logan High School.

The inscription on the plaque on the front of the base reads:

               1917     (American Legion Shield)
     1918               
TO THE MEMORY OF ALL MEN
OF LOGAN COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN
THE WORLD WAR

KILLED IN ACTION:
(twenty names in two columns)

DIED OF WOUNDS:
(ten names in two columns)

DIED OF DISEASE, ETC., A. E. F:
(nine names in two columns)

THE ERECTION OF THIS MEMORIAL
WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE ACTIVITY OF
PETE C. MINOTTI,
AIDED BY PATRIOTIC FRIENDS OF THE COUNTY
1928

The Doughboy is sometimes known as the Pete Minotti Memorial. Peter C. Minotti, an Italian immigrant and local contractor, was determined to see that Logan had a memorial, and worked for months with the Logan American Legion and all others in Logan who were interested. Mr. Minotti made a talk before a large crowd at the Doughboy’s November 11, 1928 dedication at the west entrance to the Logan County Courthouse, was presented a miniature Doughboy.

The Doughboy was moved to its current location in 1964. The area, dedicated as War Memorial Park, includes large stone tablets honoring those from Logan County who made the supreme sacrifice in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Picture
Photo provided by Jerry Godby, P.R.I.D.E. in Logan County, Inc.
A major restoration, which included replacement of the entire left arm, the rifle and bayonet, and the upper part of the upraised right hand and grenade, was performed by bronze/copper sculptor Joe Mullins of Charleston, West Virginia in 1983 and the Doughboy was rededicated during the November 11, 1983 dedication of the park.
Picture
Photo provided by Jerry Godby, P.R.I.D.E. in Logan County, Inc.
A Logan Banner picture of the November 11, 1928 dedication of Logan’s Doughboy.

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