Shobal Vail Clevenger
Shobal Vail Clevenger, the American sculptor, was born in Middletown in 1812, and died September 28, 1843. In his youth he worked as a stone-mason in Cincinnati, where the figure of an angel he carved on a stone attracted attention. From Cincinnati he removed to Boston, where he executed busts of Clay, Van Buren, and others. He afterward went to Europe, taking up his residence at Florence, where he executed may busts, which showed a rapid advance and gave promise that he would attain by pulmonary consumption he embarked for America, but died of the passage.
From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.