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Person: Russell Conwell

Also memorialized by the Founder's Garden.

Russell Conwell
Boris Blai, 1968
* Bust of Russell Conwell
* big head
* Conwell and his wife, Sarah S. Conwell, are buried behind the sculpture. The waterfall in the background of the third picture was added in 2017.
* The waterfall is part of the O'Connor Plaza Fountain
* inscription: Russell H. Conwell, Founder of Temple University, 1843-1925
* Conwell's burial site. Lower Northwest corner of Founder's Garden. Liacouras and Polett Walks.
* 39.981350,-75.155700 [map] [nearby]
* On the Temple Campus tour
* See also:
+findagrave.com entry for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Boris Blai page
+sikora-wa.com page for their Founder's Garden reimagining

See Also

+wikipedia.org's Russell Conwell page