Left: Statues Of Winthrop And John Adams in The Chapel.

      On the opposite side:—

      The relations between the Horticultural Society and the proprietors of lots in Mount Auburn early came to be embarrassing, because of a conflict of interests. In 1835, therefore, a new corporation was formed, of Mount Auburn Proprietors, and a deed of conveyance was made out from the Horticultural Society to the new corporation. Under the terms of this deed, the cemetery corporation has paid to the Horticultural Society about $242,000,
      The chapel was undertaken in 1844, from a plan submitted by Dr. Bigelow. Defective work by the contractors occasioned several years' delay in the settlement of the question of its acceptance; and in 1853 it became necessary to take it down and rebuild it in a more substantial and satisfactory manner.
      Judge Story, one of the first to interest himself in the cemetery, and president for eleven years of the Corporation of Proprietors, died in 1845. A private subscription for a memorial immediately followed, and in 1855 a marble statue, by Judge Story's son, William Wetmore Story, was received and placed in the chapel.
      The other three statues in the chapel were provided at the expense of the corporation, the plan being that each of the important periods in the history of Massachusetts should be represented. For the period of the settlement of the Colony, John Winthrop, its first governor, was selected. His statue is the work of Richard S. Greenough. Of the second epoch, that of the beginning of resistance to British aggression, James Otis was the leader. The statue of Otis was begun and nearly completed by Thomas Crawford, the last touches being by other hands, after the death of that lamented sculptor. The third era, that of the Revolution and the establishment of a new constitution, was represented by John Adams. The statue of Adams is by Randolph Rogers. Of the fourth period, that of peaceful development under beneficent laws, no more appropriate representative could have been chosen than Judge Story.