Edmonia Lewis was born Green brush, New York that she claims but researchers say that she was born and raised in Green high, Ohio and another researcher claims she was born in Newark, New Jersey but it’s unclear to history where she was born.

Edmonia claimed her father was a free black from the West Indies and her mother was a "wild Indian born in Albany her mother had a copper color and with straight black hair that is what she claims but it is not proven.

When Lewis was around nine years old, both of her parents died within a year of each other. Lewis and her older brother, Samuel, lived with their mother’s sisters for the next three years of their lives.

Lewis and her aunts sold Ojibwa baskets and other crafts to tourists visiting Niagara Falls, Toronto, and Buffalo. Samuel became a successful businessman and gold prospector and paid for her tuition to the New York Central College. Lewis was rebellious and did not learn English well, so Samuel suggested she transfer to Oberlin College, outside Cleveland, Ohio.

During the winter season of 1862, several months after the start of the Civil War, while Edmonia Lewis attended Oberlin College, an incident involved her and two classmates, Maria Miles and Christina Ennes.

After college, Lewis moved to Boston late in She began to study under a well- known sculptor, Edward Augustus Brackett. Under his tutelage, Lewis crafted her own sculpting tools and sold her first piece, a sculpture of a woman’s hand, for $8. She opened her studio to the public in her first solo exhibit in 1864.

She found inspiration in the lives of Abolitionists and Civil War heroes. Lewis met Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of an African American Civil War regiment from Massachusetts. She was inspired to create a bust of his likeness, which impressed the Shaw family, who purchased her homage.

Rome was where Lewis spent most of her adult career. Her studies there contributed to her neoclassical techniques and subject matter.

The exact year of Edmonia Lewis’ death in uncertain. Records state she was still alive in 1909, and in 1911 she was seen in Rome. It is believed she died in Rome.

What's Edmonia last name? 1.Lewis 2.Car 3. Simmons

What did Edmonia Lewis do? 1.Artist 2.Lawyer 3.Clown

What was Edmonia Lewis father 1.Free BlackmanFree Blackman 2.CarpenterCarpenter 3.SlaveSlave

Where did Edmonia Lewis claim she was born? 1.Green brush, New YorkGreen brush, New York 2.Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, Georgia 3.Orlando, FloridaOrlando, Florida

Where did edmonia Lewis spend most of her adult career? 1.RomeRome 2.ChinaChina 3.EnglandEngland