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MORLAND 15, 1789, and both he and his wife are buried in St. Peter's churchyard, Philadelphia.

In addition to his writings already referred to he published the following:

"The Reciprocal Advantages of a Perpetual Union between Great Britain and her American Colonies" (1766), before the Revolution, and "A Recommendation of Inoculation According to Baron Dimsdale's Method" (1776).

He also contributed to the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society" the following:

"An Account of a Pye Negro Girl and Mulatto Boy"; "On the Art of Making Anatomical Preparations by Corrosion"; and an article "On a Snake in a Horse's Eye, and of other Unnatural Productions of Animals."



Morland, William Wallace (1818–1876)

William Wallace Morland was born at Salem, Massachusetts, September 1, 1818, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1838, and received the degree of M. D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1841. After continuing his studies for a time in Europe he settled in Boston, where he practised his profession with considerable success, but found time for collateral scientific and literary pursuits. In 1855 Dr. Morland, in association with (q. v.), succeeded  (q. v.) as editor of the 'Boston Medical and Surgical Journal and continued successfully in this position until 1860.

At the foundation of the Boston City Hospital in 1864 Dr. Morland was appointed visiting physician and held this post until 1870. For nearly twenty years he was medical examiner for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and was its recording secretary in 1863–1864, and a member of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

Dr. Morland was author of a book on "Diseases of the Urinary Organs," which appeared in 1858; and in 1866 he won the Fiske prize for an essay on Uremia. His paper on "Florida and South Carolina as Health Resorts," published in 1872, was the best and most widely known of his smaller writings. He was also a poet of delicacy and contemporary distinction, as is evidenced by some of his occasional verses, published or preserved in manuscript. His obituary notice in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal says of him that "as a man and a physician, Dr. Morland was alike excellent, of much learning and ability, joined to the most charming and unpretentious manners." He died at Boston November 25, 1876.



Morrill, David Lawrence (1772–1849)

Dr. David Lawrence Morrill, Governor and United States Senator from New Hampshire, was born in Epping, New Hampshire, June 10, 1772. He was the eldest son of Rev. Samuel Morrill, a native of Wilmington, Massachusetts, who was born April 21, 1744 and was graduated from Harvard College in 1766, and grandson of Rev. Isaac Morrill of Wilmington, Massachusetts.

His father was a licentiate preacher and had an invitation to settle at North Hampton, but in consequence of imperfect health, declined the proposal and never settled in the ministry His mother was Anna Lawrence, only daughter of David Lawrence, Esq., of Epping.

Dr. David Lawrence Morrill was kept in the common school until after his father's death; being then thirteen years old, he was sent to study Latin with his grandfather at Wilmington, preparatory to the study of medicine. He continued there until the fall of 1786, when he returned to Epping, New Hampshire, and pursued the study of Latin until June. 1787. From that time he labored on the farm with his Grandfather Lawrence for two years or more, after which he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, under the instruction of Preceptor Abbott in the languages, and Dr. Daniel Dana, then assistant, in mathematics.

After leaving the Academy he began the study of medicine with Dr. Timothy Johnson, his father-in-law, with whom he continued until the spring of 1792. He then went to Natick, Massachusetts, and read and practised with his uncle, Dr. Isaac Morrill While there, he went into a hospital, under the superintendence of Dr. I. Morrill, and had the principal care of it for some time.

Returning to Epping and attending business with Doctor Johnson until 1793 he entered upon practice at Epsom, New Hampshire, where he continued, except for an absence of about one year, until the autumn of 1800.