Ernest Moore Viquesney (August 5, 1876 – October 4, 1946) was an American sculptor best known for his popular World War I monument Spirit of the American Doughboy. Biography "Dick" Viquesney was the son of French-born stone mason Alfred P. Viquesney and his third wife, Ohio-born Jane Lehman. Viquesney was born in Spencer, Indiana, where he lived for much of his life. He served in the Spanish–American War, during which he was stationed at Pensacola, Florida. He is presumed to have learned stone-carving from his father, and placed a "Situations Wanted" advertisement in a trade magazine at the end of 1903: A sober, competent marble letterer and tracer desires a steady position with a reliable firm after Jan. 1; 12 years experience, competent draftsman, saleman and foreman; state wages and hours. E. M. Viquesney, Spencer, Ind. Viquesney wrote a manual on stonecutting: The Pneumatic Tool: Its Care and Used (1904), which was published as a series of articles in The Monumental News, then republished in book form. He invented a machine to moisten and attach postage stamps to letters. Viquesney married Cora Barnes in 1904, and the following year began work as a designer and carver for C. J. Clark Monuments in Americus, Georgia. He designed mortuary monuments, and executed work on monuments at Andersonville National Cemetery. He left Clark Monuments by 1909, to become designer for the Georgia Granite and Marble Company in Rome, Georgia. For Georgia Granite, he designed the Women of the Confederacy Monument (1909–1910), for the city's Myrtle Hill Cemetery. For Charles G. Blake Company, Viquesney designed the Sedgwick County Soldier's and Sailor's Monument (1911–1913), in Wichita, Kansas. Sculptor Frederick Hibbard modeled the four bronze military figures, and W. H. Mullins Company provided the hammered copper Goddess of Victory atop the monument's dome. Peace Memorial (unbuilt) In 1913, as the 50th anniversary of the end of the Civil War approached, The Blue and the Gray Association of America proposed that a Peace Memorial be built in Fitzgerald, Georgia, the town where Confederate President Jefferson Davis had hidden from Union troops. Viquesney's design featured a square stone pavilion with bronze sculpture groups above the cornice, and a stone tower crowned by a bronze goddess of Peace. At the base, the monument is 56 feet square, while its height is approximately 125 feet. The four granite steps leading from the ground to the entrance of the monument typify