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Charles Rowland Peaslee (d. 1905) started merchandising
paints, oils, glass, and lamps
with George Gaulbert in 1867. The
sphinx is an extraordinary being
composed of various human and animal
features, the ultimate embodiment
of enigma. Muldoon’s
sphinx is a copy of the monument
erected in 1850 in Sprig Grove
Cemetery, Cincinnati, in memory
of Matthew and Ann Lawler of Philadelphia,
where Lawler had been mayor. Peaslee’s wife was
of that family, and when he died,
his daughters sold the summer cottage
in Glenview for $5,000 to pay for
the monument. Section
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