Morton, Eliza H – Moses, Charles L
Morton, Eliza H
author, poet, was born July 18, 1853, in Deering, Me. She is the author of Potter's series of Geographies; and a volume of poems entitled Still Waters. She is also known as the author of The Songs My Mother Sang; My Mission; I Glory in the Cross; and many other hymns, made popular in D. L.
Moody revival meetings.
Morton, Henry
physicist, college president, author, was born Dec. 11, 1836, in New York city. He was a noted physicist, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, N. J., from 1870; and the author of The Student's Practical Chemistry, and many valuable scientific monographs.
Morton, Jackson
manufacturer, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 10, 1794, in Spottsylvania county, Va. He was a senator in congress from Florida from 1849 to 1855; and served in the rebellion as a member of the confederate congress. He died Nov. 20, 1874, in Santa Rosa county, Fla.
Morton, James Ferdinand
educator, clergyman, was born Jan. 24, 1844, in Nova Scotia. He has filled the chair of New Testament Exegesis in the Theological institute of Newton, Mass.; and since 1891 has filled the chair in the Proctor academy of Andover, N. H. He has done considerable editorial work, and is a constant contributor to current literature.
Morton, James St. Clair
soldier, author, was born Sept. 24, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a federal officer killed in the attack upon Petersburg; and the author of Instruction in Engineering; New System of Fortifications; Memoir on Fortification; and Dangers and Defenses of New York City. He died June 17, 1864, in Petersburg, Va.
Morton, Jennie C
poet, was born in Bell's Grove, Ky. She is the daughter of Judge Franklin Bryan Chinn. As a poet of genius Mrs.
Morton is recognized the country over; and is considered the of one of sweetest poets of a central Kentucky.
She is the author of centennial poem, which was read on the occasion of the centennial commission anniversary.
Her longest and best poem, which is entitled A Rhyme of the Women of Frankfort, and two other beautiful poems of hers entitled, Frankfort, and the Elkhorn, were handsomely illustrated by photographic pictures of the scenes and points of interest described in them.
A number of copies were published in a brochure at five and ten dollars per copy, and were purchased and sent abroad as souvenirs.
Morton, Jeremiah
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Morton, John
signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1724 in Ridley, Pa. He was appointed a justice of the peace; and was soon elected to the New York assembly of the state. He was a member of the New York congress in 1765. He was a judge of the supreme court; was a signer of the declaration of independence; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777. He died April, 1777, in Delaware county, Pa.
Morton, Julius Sterling
journalist, legislator, was born April 22, 1832, in Jefferson county, N. Y. He located in Nebraska in 1854, in Bellevue, and in the following year issued the first number of the Nebraska City News. He was elected to the territorial legislature the same year and reelected in 1857. He is the author of the arbor day legislation, which prothat one day in each year, April 22, be made a public holiday and be devoted to tree planting, and which has been adopted in forty-two states. He was appointed secretary of agriculture by President Cleveland, and entered upon his duties March ties March 7, 1893.
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
jurist, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 19 , 1784, in Freetown, Mass. In 1811 he was chosen clerk of the Massachusetts senate; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1821. In 1823 he was a member of the executive council of that state; in 1824 was elected lieutenant-governor; and was subsequently a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts from 1825 to 1840. He was governor of the state from 1840 to 1841 , and again from 1843 to 1844. He was collector of Boston from 1845 to 1849; and a member of the state legislature in 1858.
He died Feb. 6, 1864, in Taunton.
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, Oliver P
jurist, governor, United States senator, was born Aug. 4, 1823, in Saulsbury, Ind. In 1852 he was elected circuit judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Indiana. In 1860 he was elected lieutenant - governor of Indiana; and in 1861, on the transfer of Governor H. S.
Lane to the United States senate, assumed the office of governor and held it four years. In 1864 he was elected governor for a second term. In 1867 he was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1873; and was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1879. He died Nov. 1, 1877, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Morton, Oliver Throck
lawyer, author, was born in 1860 in Indiana. He , was born in 1860 in Indiana. He is a lawyer of Chicago; and the author of The Southern Empire, with Other Papers. cian, scientist, author, was born Jan. 26,
Morton, Samuel George
physi- 1799, in Philadelphia. He was a prominent Philadelphia physician and scientist, and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences . He was the author of Crania Americana; Crania Egyptica; and Illustrated System of Human Anatomy. He died May 15, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Morton, Mrs. Sarah Went-
WORTH [APTHORPE], author, poet, was born Aug. 29, 1759, in Braintree, Mass. She was a verse-writer of Quincy, Mass.; and the author of Ouabi, an Indian Tale in four cantos; and My Mind and its Thoughts . She died May 14, 1846, in Quincy, Mass.
Morton, Thomas
author, was born about 1575 in England. He was a famous 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.
Morton, Thomas George
physician, author, was born Aug. 8, 1835, in , author, was born Aug. 8, 1835, in Philadelphia . He is a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of Practice from 1756; and Transfusion of Blood and its Practical Application.
Morton, William Thomas Green
dentist, was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Charl- , was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Charlton, Mass. He first discovered the anæsthetic treatment now used by all dentists; and the French Academy of Sciences voted him voted him an award of twenty-five hunfor the application of the discovery for surgical operations. He died July 15, 1868, in New York city.
Morwitz, Edward
journalist, inventor, author, was born June 12, 1815, , 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 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, 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.
Moses, Charles L
agriculturist, congressman, was born May 2, 1856, in Coweta county, Ga. He was elected from Georgia to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat.