Jeff Rankin: Renowned ‘Farmer Sculptor’ hailed from Berwick
By Jeff Rankin
The Rankin File
Just as the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jack London achieved their power from the writers’ personal experiences, the works of Ben D. Cable earned him the title “the Farmer Sculptor.”
Born on a farm just north of Berwick in 1865, Benjamin Davis Cable showed an aptitude for drawing and painting from an early age, while attending the district school in Floyd Township. A voracious reader, he schooled himself on all aspects of the arts, and in his spare time on the farm took up sketching farm animals and wildlife.