Moreland, Mary L – Morgan, James Appleton
Moreland, Mary L
educator, evangelist, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1858, in Westfield, Mass. For many years she taught in the public schools; was ordained in 1889; and is now the pastor of the Union congregational church of Mc- Lean, Ill. She is a successful lecturer, evangelist, and the author of Which:
Right or Wrong; Under His Wings; and other works.
Morell, George
lawyer, jurist, was born March 22, 1786, in Lenox, Mass.
From 1832 till 1836 he was United States judge of Michigan territory, and he was a judge of the Michigan supreme court from 1836 till 1843, and its chief justice from July 18, 1843, until his death. He died March 8, 1845, in Detroit, Mich.
Morell, George Webb
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 8, 1815, in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was appointed brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1861, and was promoted major-general of volunteers. He died Feb. 12, 1883, in Scarborough, N. Y.
Morey, Charles Anson
educator, banker, lawyer, was born Aug. 9, 1851, in Orange county, Vt. He nas been a successful educator, and is now a noted lawyer and banker of Winona, Minn. He has been president of the Normal school of Winona; and president of the Winona Savings bank. served
Morey, Frank
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born July 11, 1840, in Boston, Mass. He entered the army, and principally on staff duty. He settled in Louisiana in 1866, and engaged in cotton planting and in the insurance business. He was a member of the assembly in 1868 and 1869; and was appointed a commissioner to revise the statutes and codes of the state. He was elected to the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Morey, Henry Lee
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 8, 1841, in Butler county, Ohio. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, attaining the rank of captain. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867, and commenced practice at Hamilton, Ohio. In 1871 he was elected city solicitor of Hamilton to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected for the term of two years.
He was elected prosecuting attorney of Butler county in 1873; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican.
Morfit, Campbell
chemist, author, was born Nov. 19, 1820, in Herculaneum, Mo. He is the author of Practical Treatise on the Making of Soaps; Pure Fertilizers and Phosphates; Arts of Tanning and Currying; and Use and Manufacture of Perfumery.
Morfit, Clarence
chemist, author, was born May 16, 1828, in Washington, D. C. He filled the office of assistant melter and refiner in the United States assay office in New York city for seven years. Meanwhile he was also associated with his brother in his analytical work in New York city, and was joint author with his brother of the second edition of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manipulations.
Morford, Henry
journalist, author, was born March 10, 1823, in New Monmouth, N. J. He was a journalist of New York city who wrote a number of novels, dramas and poems of ephemeral merit.
The Bells of Shandon is his best known play, and among his novels are, Shoulder Straps; Days of Shoddy; Only a Commoner. Other works are, Rhymes of Twenty Years; Rhymes of an Editor; and Sprees and Splashes. He died May 5, 1881, in New York city.
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, Daniel
soldier, congressman, was born about 1736 in New Jersey. In 1755 he served as a private soldier under General Braddock. dock. In 1778 he commanded a corps on the Schuylkill to cut off supplies from the British in Philadelphia; served in the southern campaign under General Greene, and advanced to the rank of brigadier-general, receiving from congress a gold medal for the skill and bravery he displayed at the battle of Cowpens in the defeat of Tarleton. He was a representative in congress from 1795 to 1799. He died July 6, 1802, in Winchester, Va.
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 Dennison
soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born Feb. 8, 1811, in Washington, Mass. In 1849 he was chosen an alderman of New York city; during the same year was elected to the state senate, and served two terms. In 1858 he was elected governor of New York, and re-elected in 1860. In 1861 he was appointed major-general of volunteers, and, although he rendered much service, declined all compensation. In 1863 he was elected a senator in congress from New York for the term ending in 1869. He died Feb. 14, 1883, in New York city.
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, George W
soldier, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1820, in Washington, Pa. In 1843 he settled at Mount Vernon, Onio, and adopted the profession of the law. He served in the Mexican war as colonel of the second Ohio infantry, and for his services at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco was brevetted a brigadier-general in the regular army. In 1855 he was appointed consul at Marseilles. In 1858 was appointed minister resident at Lisbon. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortieth congress; and was reelected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a democrat.
Morgan, George Washbourne
organist, was born April 9, 1822, in England. He has been organist of St. Thomas' and Grace episcopal churches, and St. Ann's and St. Stephen's Roman catholic churches, and of the Brooklyn tabernacle.
He has played in various parts of the United States with much success, and since 1880 has given annual organ recitals at Chickering hall.
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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