Andrew Jackson's Head-- Part 3

Samuel Dewey presented Andrew Jackson's head to the Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Jackson and it was presumed that he discarded the head.

But, in fact, he took it home and it descended through his family for generations.  Eventually it ended up with a relative in France.  In 1998 a curator of the Museum of the City of New York located the head in the home of Dickerson family members in the Paris suburbs.

Today, the Museum of the City of New York has in its collection the original Beecher figurehead with a second head  carved by Dodge & Sons of New York in 1834.  The museum also has the original Beecher head decapitated by Dewey.

--Brock-Perry