George Henry Honig was born on August 3, 1874, in Rockport, Indiana, the son of Simon Honig and Mary Killian Honig. At age 14, he was a Lincoln scholar who interviewed people in the area who had known Abraham Lincoln. He was valedictorian of the Rockport High School class of 1893 and attended Indiana University in Bloomington, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. At age 40, he studied art in New York City, where he was an assistant to Herman MacNeil and helped work on the statue in Washington Square in New York. He was considered one of the leading sculptors of the Midwest and was engaged to design statuary groups for the Evansville Coliseum. He also made an eight-foot statue of a soldier for the state of Colorado, with a replica of the same statue in Kansas. Honig created statuettes, portraits, crayon drawings, water and oil colors, and pencil sketches of people and places in the Evansville area. He published a book of sketches, made hundreds of historic plaques around the United States, and worked for many years to build Southern Indiana into a historical center focused on Abraham Lincoln. One of his projects was the Lincoln Pioneer Village in Rockport, Indiana. Honig is listed in Art and Artists of Indiana, Who's Who in Evansville, Biographies of American Artists Active from 1898-1947, and Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. In 1957, he was named the first honorary member of the Evansville College Chapter of Kappa Pl, a national art fraternity. He died in Evansville, Indiana, on May 4, 1962.