Stained glass windows were installed which depict Cincinnatus and illustrate Cincinnati's early history.
:Cincinnatus: Item taken from L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, and generally virtuous Roman patrician who saved Rome from the Celtic invasions from the North.
He won a prize, which allowed him to be awarded a scholarship in Paris where he worked in the studio of Jacques-Louis David, where he produced his notable Cincinnatus leaving the plow to make laws to Rome.
Cincinnatus, ancient Roman politician of the 5th and 6th centuries BC
An eccentric brother of his mother claimed the naming of her children, and called them after his favorite historical heroes, in Lamar's case the Roman statesman Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus.
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Born April 17, 1819 in Cincinnatus, New York, his father was Elijah Dwight (1797–1868) and mother was Olive Standish (1795–1874), descended from Myles Standish.
After studying painting under Joaquim Manuel da Rocha, he went in 1788 to Rome, where he placed himself under the tuition of Antonio Cavallucci, and gained reputation by a picture of 'The Summoning of Cincinnatus to the Dictatorship.'
Union County is the birthplace of Thomas Warren Bennett, Mary Alice Smith (Little Orphan Annie), Cincinnatus Hiner "Joaquin" Miller, Jay Hall Connaway, Major General Frederick Leroy Martin and Ambrose Burnside.