Thomas Jefferson was an original author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third U.S. President. In Cooperstown, New York, there is a museum - a national shrine. Here are captured forever, in plaster and canvas, the shadows of men who walked through history, who long ago plotted the course steered by our country at the beginning of its journey of self governance. Amongst these is a life mask of Thomas Jefferson. The gentleman who made it was J H Brower esq, and the circumstances surrounding its creation were most unusual. The event occurred on the afternoon of October 15th 1825...