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Morgan, Abel – Morgan, James Appleton

Morgan, Abel

clergyman, author, was born in 1673 in Wales. He was a Welsh baptist minister who came to Philadelphia from Wales in 1712. He was the author of Cyd Gordiad, a Scripture concordance published in 1730, the second Welsh book printed in America. He died Dec. 16, 1722, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Morgan, Abner

soldier, legislator, was born June 9, 1746, in Brimfield, Mass.

He served through the revolutionary war; and received the rank of major. For eighteen years he was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. He died Nov. 7, 1837, in Lima, N. Y.

Morgan, Charles Hale

soldier, was born Nov. 6, 1834, in Manlius, N. Y.

He was brevetted brigadier-general, United States army, in 1865, for services in the field during the war, and made full brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1865. He died Dec. 20, 1875, in California.

Morgan, Charles Henry

soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 5, 1842, in Allegany county, N. Y.

He became prosecuting attorney for Benton county. He was elected to the state legislature. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyfourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-eighth, and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

Morgan, Christopher

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1808, in Groton, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1843; was secretary of state of New York from 1848 to 1852; and was mayor of Auburn in 1860.

Morgan, David Banister

soldier, legislator, was born in 1773, in West Springfield, Mass. He removed to Louisiana in 1803, served in the territorial legislature; was a member of the constitutional convention; and after the admission of Louisiana to the union was in the state legislature. He died July 15, 1848, in Covington, La.

Morgan, Edwin Barber

merchant, congressman, philanthropist, was born May 2, 1806, in Aurora, N. Y. He was elected to the thirty-third congress as a representative from New York; and was re-elected to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died Oct. 13, 1881, in Aurora, N. Y.

Morgan, Edwin Wright

soldier, educator, was born in 1814 in Pennsylvania. From 1866 till his death he was professor of mathematics in Lehigh university. He died April 16, 1869, in Bethlehem, Pa.

Morgan, Helen Clarissa

educator, was born Feb. 25, 1845, in Masonville, N. Y. She began by giving instruction in Latin, Greek and mathematics in Fiske school, Ohio, and when the institution had become firmly established she was formally given the professorship of Latin, thus being the first woman to occupy a professor's chair in an American co-educational university.

Morgan, Henry

clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1825, in Newton, Conn.

He was a once prominent methodist minister and lecturer of Boston; and the author of Ned Nevins, the Newsboy; The Fallen Priest; Sketches and Sermons; The Shadowy Hand, or Life Struggles; and Boston Inside Out. He died March 23, 1884, in Boston, Mass.

Morgan, James

congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813.

Morgan, James Appleton

lawyer, author, was born Oct. 2, 1850, in Portland, Maine. He is a lawyer of New York city, and the author of Laws of Literature; The Shakespearean Myth; A History of the Shakespeare Text; Some Shakespearean Commentators; Shakespeare in Fact and Criticism; Venus and Adonis; A Study in Warwickshire Dialect; and English Version of Legal Maxims.

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