Morgan, James Brainerd – Morphis, Joseph L
Morgan, James Brainerd
journalist, poet, was born in Berkeley county, W. Va. In 1870 he founded the Times of Gerardstown, W. Va., of which publication he is still editor and owner. is the author of a number of meritorious poems, some of which were included in Poets of America, and other standard national collections. He has been grand secretary of the Independent Order of Good Templars; and is prominent in the public affairs of his county and state, and a member of various fraternal orders. Mr.
Morgan is an earnest advocate of the temperance reform, and has written largely in both prose and verse in its behalf. In the Independent Order of Good Templars he found congenial work and merited appreciation, having been the secretary of the grand lodge of the state for the past ten years and been sent several times as its representative in the highest legislative body of the order in the world.
Morgan, James Bright
soldier, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born March 14, 1835, in Lincoln county, Tenn. He was a member of the state senate of Mississippi in 1876-78; and in 1878 was appointed chancellor of the third chancery district, serving four years. He was grand master of masons in Mississippi; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
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Morgan, James Dady
soldier, was born Aug. 1, 1810, in Boston, Mass. 1861 he became lieutenant-colonel of the seventh Illinois regiment, and for meritorious services was promoted brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1862. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865.
Morgan, James Henry
man-ofaffairs, was born Jan. 31, 1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the founder and secretary general of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States; and is president of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York.
Morgan, John Hunt
soldier, was born June 1, 1826, in Huntsville, Ala.
He entered the confederate army as captain of the Kentucky volunteers; and in 1862 he was appointed major-general. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Greenville, Tenn.
Morgan, John J
legislator, congressman, was born in 1769, in Queens county, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly; a representative in congress from that state from 1821 to 1825; and again in the assembly in 1836 and 1840. He died July 29, 1849.
Morgan, John Tyler
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born June 20, 1824, in Athens, Tenn. He was a presidential elector in 1860 from Alabama.
In 1861 he was a delegate to the state convention called to consider the question of secession. He entered the confederate army in that year, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of brigadiergeneral. He was again a presidential elector in 1876; and was elected to the United States senate for six years from 1877; and re-elected in 1882, 1888 and 1894.
Morgan, Lewis Henry
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 21, 1818, in Aurora, N. Y. He was a lawyer of Rochester, N. Y., widely known as an ethnologist, and the author of League of the Iroquois; Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family; The American Beaver and His Works; Ancient Society; and Horses and Horse Life of the American Aborigines. He died Dec. 17, 1881, in Rochester, N. Y.
Morgan, Maud
harpist, was born Nov. 22, 1864, in New York city. She studied music with her father and with the harpist Alfred Toulmin. She first appeared in 1875 in a concert with Ole Bull. She possesses good technique, and has been well received in New York and elsewhere.
Morgan, Matthew Somerville
artist, author, was born April 27, 1839, in England. He was associated with Frank C. Burnand, William S. Gilbert and others, in the establishment of the London Fun, and a volume of his cartoons in this paper has been published under the title American War Cartoons.
Morgan, Morris Hicky
educator, author, was born in 1859 on Long Island.
He is a professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard university, and the author of De ignis eliciendi modis apud antiquos; Dictionary to Xenophon's Anabasis; and The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon, a translation with Essays and Notes.
Morgan, Philip Hicky
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 9, 1825, in Baton Rouge, La. He was elected judge of the second district court of New Orleans in 1855; and served by re-election until 1861.
He was appointed United States district attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana; resigned and was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the state in 1873, serving until 1877.
Morgan, Thomas J
soldier, was born Aug. 17, 1839, in Franklin, Ind. He served through the civil war and attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1891 he was elected commissioner of Indian affairs.
Morgan, Thomas Rees
machinist, inventor, manufacturer, was born March 31, 1834, in Wales. At a very early age. he developed unusual mechanical and inventive talent; and early in life occupied positions as a machinist in some of the largest iron works in Cardiff. In 1865 he emigrated to America, subsequently moving to Pittsburg, where he engaged in manufacturing steam hammers and other special machinery. In 1871 he moved to Alliance, Ohio, where he has continued the same business on a very extensive scale. He gathered around him hundreds of trained mechanics and draughtsmen, the various departments of the factory being under the charge of his sons, who are young men of decidedly rare ability. The Morgan Engineering company gives employment to six hundred trained workmen; the machinery produced being mostly of Mr. Morgan's own designing, and is largely covered by patents. He is president of the City Savings bank of Alliance; a director of the Alliance Bank company; president of the Alliance board of trade; vice-president of the Mutual Electric Light and Power company; and in his department of business is one of the best informed men in America. He is one of the trustees of Mount Union college; a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; American Institute of Mechanical Engineers of the United States; and a member of the Iron and Steel Institute and Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain. He died Sept. 6, 1897.
Morgan, William
public official, congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1801, in Virginia. He served as a representative in congress from Virginia from 1835 to 1839. In 1840 he was appointed a clerk in the house of representatives, from which position he was transferred to the legislature of Virginia, and declined a reelection. He was a democratic elector in 1844.
Morgan, William
artist, was born in 1826, in London, England. He is a member of the American Art union and the Artists' Fund society. His works include Emancipation; The Legend; Song without Words; Motherhood; Reverie; In the Hay-Loft; Summer; The Sortie; Andante; Blowing Bubbles; and La Mandolinata.
Morgan, William A
journalist, legislator, was born March 7, 1840, in Ireland. For three years he was a soldier during the civil war in the twenty-third Kentucky volunteer infantry; and has served as a representative and state senator in the Kansas legislature.
Morgan, William Ferdinand
clergyman, was born Dec. 21, 1817, in Hartford, Conn. In 1857 he was called to St. Thomas's church, New York city. In 1888 he received the rectorship of St.
Thomas, and was made rector emeritus of that church for life. He died May 19, 1888, in New York city.
Moriarty, James Joseph
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 8, 1843, in Ireland. He was a Roman catholic clergyman of New York state; and the author of Wayside Pencillings; Stumbling Blocks made Stepping Stones on the Way to the Catholic Faith; All for Love; and The Keys of the Kingdom. He died Dec. 4, 1887, in Utica, N. Y.
Moriarty, Patrick Eugene
clergyman, author, was born July 4, 1804, in Ireland. He was an Augustinian priest of Philadelphia, father superior of his order in the United States; and the author of Life of St. Augustine. He died July 10, 1875, in Villanova, Pa.
Morison, John Hopkins
clergyman, author, was born July 25, 1808, in Peterborough, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Milton, Mass., in 1846-85; and the author of Life of Honorable Jeremiah Smith; Disquisitions and Notes on the Gospel of Saint Matthew; and The Great Poets as Religious Teachers. He died in 1896.
Morison, Nathaniel Holmes
educator, was born Dec. 14, 1815, in Peterborough, N. H. In 1867 he accepted the provostship of Peabody institute, Baltimore, the duties of which, although light, are important. He died Nov. 15, 1890, in Baltimore, Md.
Morison, Robert Brown
physician, author, was born March 13, 1851, in Batimore, Md. In 1884 he began the practice of dermatology in Baltimore, being the first physician in that city to take up that specialty exclusively.
Morley, Edward Williams
chemist, was born Jan. 29, 1838, in Newark, N. J. His original works include a series of measurements prepared for the purpose of showing precision in the micrometric readings of graduations.
Morphis, Joseph L
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born April 17, 1831, in McNairy county, Tenn. He was a member of the Tennessee state legislature in 1859. He moved to Mississippi in 1863; and was elected to the state constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1865. He was a member of the state legislature in 1866-68; and was elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a republican.