Morrell, George
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born March 22, 1786, in Lenox, Mass. He was a lawyer in Cooperstown, N. Y.; and was appointed first judge of Otsego county court in 1827. He was a member of the assembly in 1829; and was reappointed judge in 1832. He was United States judge of Michigan territory from 1832 to 1836; judge of the superior court of Michigan from 1836 to 1843; and chief justice from July 18, 1843, to 1845. He died March 8, 1845, in Detroit, Mich.
MORRELL, IMOGENE ROBINSON, artist, was born in Attleboro, Mass. She painted a Historical Portrait of General John A. Dix, which was afterward purchased for the capitol at Washington; and portraits of Howell Cobb and John C.
Spencer, ex-secretaries of the United States treasury. Her two large historical pictures, Washington, and the Battle of the Puritans have been highly praised both in this country and in France.