Among his first ideas about carving Mount Rushmore into the likenesses of American presidents, the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, insisted that there should be an explanatory inscription, which he called the Entablature.
In 1901, Mary Borglum and a classmate were the first two women to earn doctorates at Berlin, and The New York Times commented at the time that she was "probably the most accomplished woman in the world."
He was named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincon, who, probably not coincidentally, was the subject of the work that made Gutzon's national reputation as a sculptor.
