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Morton, Jeremiah – Moseley, William D

Morton, Jeremiah

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.

Morton, Levi Parsons

vice-president of the United States, was born May 26, 1824 , in Shoreham, Vt. He was for many years financier and banker, and entered political life by being elected to congress in 1878. In 1889 he was inaugurated as vice-president of the United States, and subsequently became governor of New York.

Morton, Marcus

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born April 8, 1819, in Taunton, Mass. In 1858 he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature.

In 1859 he became judge of the superior court of Massachusetts, and in 1872 was made chief justice of the supreme court.

Morton, Martha

dramatist, author, was born in 1865 in New York city. She is the author of Geoffrey Middleton, Gentleman, an American play that has run successfully in New York city and elsewhere.

Morton, Nathaniel

author, was born in 1613 in Holland. He was secretary of the Plymouth colony from 1647 till his death, whose New England's Memorial is well known among colonial annals. He died in 1686.

Morton, Thomas

author, was born about 1575 in England. He was a famous adventurer adventurer who, settling himself at Mount , which he termed Ma-re Mount, scandalized the colonists at Plymouth and Boston by his sports and carousals. The New English Canaan is a sarcastic and humorous description of his pious neighbors and their country. He died in 1646 in Maine.

Morwitz, Edward

journalist, inventor, author, was born June 12, 1815, in Prussia. In 1850 he came to this country, settling in Philadelphia, where in 1853 he purchased the German Democrat, which is still edited and published by him.

He has invented an improved needle-gun.

He has published numerous books, including a History of Medicine; and German- American Dictionary.

Mosby, John Singleton

soldier, author, was born Dec. 6, 1833, in Pow- , was born Dec. 6, 1833, in Powhatan county , Va. He is a famous confederate cavalry leader, consul at Hong Kong in 1878-85; and subsequently a lawyer in San Francisco. He is the author of War Reminiscences.

Mosby, Mary Webster

author, was born in April, 1791, in Henrico counborn in April, 1791, in Henrico county, Va. She published a book entitled Pocahontas. She died Nov. 19, 1844, in Richmond, Va.

Moseley, Jonathan Ogden

congressman, was born in 1762 in East Haddam, Conn. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1805. to 1821. He died Sept. 9, 1839, in Saginaw, Mich.

Moseley, William A

state senator,. congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1835; of the state senate from 1838 to 1841; and a representative in congress from 1843 to 1847.

Moseley, William D

governor,. was born Feb. 1, 1795, in Lenoir county, N. C. He was governor of Florida from 1845 to 1849. He died Jan. 4, 1863, in Palatka, Fla.