Which founding father of the United States had a statute of himself created by Carl Wilhelm Daniel Rohl-Smith featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893
Benjamin Franklin
Carl Rohl-Smith
Carl Wilhelm Daniel Rohl-Smith (April 3, 1848- August 20, 1900) was a Danish American sculptor who was active in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1900.
 He sculpted a number of life-size and small bronzes based on Greco-Roman mythological themes in Europe as well as a wide number of bas-reliefs, busts, funerary monuments, and statues throughout Denmark, the German Confederation, and Italy.
 Emigrating to the United States in 1886, he once more produced a number of sculptures for private citizens.
 His most noted American works were a statue of a soldier for a Battle of the Alamo memorial in Texas, a statue of Benjamin Franklin for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, a statue group in Chicago commemorating the Fort Dearborn Massacre, and the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin FRS, FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
 Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
 As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
 As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.
 He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution.
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
 The centerpiece of the Fair, the large water pool, represented the long voyage Columbus took to the New World.
 Chicago bested New York City; Washington, D.C.; and St. Louis for the honor of hosting the fair.
 The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism. F. Weber &amp; Company, Inc.
F. Weber Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer and supplier of artists' materials.
 Established in 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the F. Weber Company, Inc. is the oldest and one of the largest manufacturers of art materials in the United States.
 The company has been known for quality and innovation throughout their history, for example in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—the golden years of the prestigious World Fair—F. Weber & Co. frequently won gold medals for its fine quality products.
 Exhibitions included: 1873 Vienna; 1876 Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia; 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago; 1903 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco; and 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia.
 Following the death of Fredrick W. Weber Sr. in 1919, his two sons Fred W. Weber and Ernest Weber had the company incorporated and renamed it F. Weber Co., Inc.
 Fred W. Weber was a successful artist, chemist, inventor, and businessman, he was responsible for much of the innovation in product development from taking over in 1919 to his retirement in 1967.
 With his long list of innovations, a majority of which decreased the toxicity of necessary painting supplies, Fred W. Weber elevated the company to further prominence in the US art supplies market.
 His expertise in the arts as well as science along with the publication of his first book "Artists Pigments" (Van Nostrand 1923) made him a desirable lecturer on the topic of art.
 He provided advice to many celebrated 20th century artists, including: Thomas Hart Benton, Dean Cornwell, Arthur Dove, Peter Hurd, Norman Rockwell, NC Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth.
 At this time the company had its factory and headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and retail locations in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and St. Louis.
 The company was bought by Visual Art Industries of Brooklyn, NY in 1980.
 Honoring the Weber family, the name was not removed from the company.
 The company is now officially the Martin F. Weber Co. and still produces a variety of art supplies, including the original non-toxic white color "Permalba" formulated by Fred W. Weber himself in 1921.
 The modern company is also known for its artists signature kits designed for revered television artists such as Jon Gnagy, Bob Ross, Susan Scheme, Robert Wyland and Bruce Blitz. Columbian High School
Columbian High School is comprehensive public high school in Tiffin, Ohio, United States.
 It is the only high school in the Tiffin City School District.
 Their nickname is the Tornadoes.
 A long time member of the Northern Ohio League (1954-2017), Tiffin Columbian joined the Sandusky Bay Conference in 2017.
 The school has somewhere around 850 students.
 The school was founded in 1859 and the current building was constructed in 1959.
 The building was named for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the world's fair that celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival to the New World.
 Doug Hartenstein is the school principal. Isabella quarter
The Isabella quarter or Columbian Exposition quarter was a United States commemorative coin struck in 1893.
 Congress authorized the piece at the request of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition.
 The quarter depicts the Spanish queen Isabella I of Castile, who sponsored Columbus's voyages to the New World.
 It was designed by Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, and is the only U.S. commemorative of that denomination that was not intended for circulation. Statue of The Republic
The Statue of "The Republic" is a 24 ft gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois.
 It is a smaller-scale replica constructed in 1918 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where the original statue was, and commemorates the Illinois statehood centennial.
 The statue was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund, which commissioned Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the original 65 ft statue that stood on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, to sculpt this replica.
 Henry Bacon, the architect of the Lincoln Memorial, designed the festooned pedestal for the replica statue. Columbian half dollar
The Columbian half dollar is a coin issued by the Bureau of the Mint in 1892 and 1893.
 The first United States commemorative coin, it was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and to mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, whose portrait it bears.
 The Columbian half dollar was the first American coin to depict a historical person. Selim Peabody
Selim Hobart Peabody (1829–1903) was an American educator, born at Rockingham, Vermont He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1852, during the following years held professorships of mathematics, physics, and engineering at several colleges, and from 1880 to 1891 was president of the University of Illinois.
 In 1893 he was chief of the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1899–1900 editor and statistician of the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition, and in 1900 superintendent of the division of liberal arts at the Pan-American Exposition.
 From 1892 to 1895 he served as president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and from 1889 to 1891 as president of the National Council of Education.
 Peabody was an associate editor of the "International Cyclopædia", under Editor-in-Chief Harry Thurston Peck.
 Peabody's publications include: Paris 1900 chess tournament
The Paris 1900 chess tournament was an event held in conjunction with the Exposition Universelle (1900), one of the world's most notable fairs or exhibitions held during the second half of the nineteenth century and designated a "World Exposition" by the Bureau of International Expositions.
 Major international chess tournaments were also held at six other expositions: London 1851, London 1862, Paris 1867, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876 and Paris 1878.
 No chess events of significance accompanied the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris or the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.