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NAME MORRIS 820 MORRIS The first Canadian medical society, known as tlie Quebec Medical Society, was started in that city with Dr. Morrin as its first presi- dent and he was elected the first president of the medical board of the lower province. Morrin College was founded by him, and in 1831 he was elected honorary librarian to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, which was originated by His Excellency the Earl of Dalhousie in 1824. Dr. Morrin's connection with the Quebec (Beauport) Lunatic Asylum extended up to 1860, when he disposed of his interest in the establishment to Dr. Douglas and Dr. Fremont. His death occurred in the city for which he had done so much on August 29, 1861, at the age of 67 years. Institutional Care of the Insane in the U. S. and Canada, Henry M. Hurd, 1917. Sketches of Celebrated Canadians, Henry J. Morgan, Quebec, 1862. Morris, Caspar (1805-1884) Caspar Morris, physician, hospital adminis- trator and poet, was born May 2, 180S, in Philadelphia, the third son of Israel W. Morris, broker and commission merchant, and Mary, daughter of Levi Hollingsworth, mer- chant and personal friend of Washington. An ancestor was Anthony Morris, a noted preacher in the Society of Friends, and one of the original settlers of Philadelphia ; his great-grandfather was Caspar Wistar, ances- tor, also, of Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) (q.v.). Morris had his early education at Pine Street Meeting-House, then with David Dulles, in Church Alley, and, later, at the Penn Charter School. He entered the office of Joseph Parrish (q. v.) and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating M. D. in 1826 with a thesis on "Medical Uses of Sulphur." In 1827 he went to India as ship's surgeon and assistant supercargo in the Pacific, and on the voyage acquired a knowledge of Greek, studying the Greek Testament. On his return in 1828 he was appointed one of the physicians of the Philadelphia Dispen- sary. He intended to settle near Seventh and Arch Streets, but his sympathies were aroused by seeing a poor woman bringing her sick baby, from the neighborhood of the brick- yards beyond Broad and Chestnut, to the Fifth Street Dispensary on a hot July day; he therefore determined to live near the poor in that district, and forthwith established himself on Broad Street near Chestnut. He later moved to Chestnut, afterwards to Spruce for the rest of his life. He helped to establish the House of Refuge, and was physician there, 1830-1834; he helped found the Penn- sylvania Institution for the Instruction of the' Blind, was its physician and a manager. In 1838 he aided in founding the Philadelphia Medical Institute and lectured on practice until 1844; in 1852 he published a pamphlet, addressed to Bishop Potter, on the need of increased hospital facilities in Philadelphia ; this began the movement which resulted in the Protestant Episcopal Hospital in Philadel- phia; he was one of the managers of that institution. From 1829 to 1838 he was an active member of the Academy of Natural Sciences ; from 1857 to 1860, of the Ameri- can Philosophical Society. While abroad he studied hospital Adminis- tration and contributed "Hospital Construc- tion and Organization" to a volume of "Hos- pital Plans, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti- more" (1875). Other medical writings in- clude: "Lectures on Scarlet Fever" (1851); "Essays on the Pathology and Therapeutics of Scarlet Fever" (1858). He was known as a writer of musical verse. Of this a small volume, printed for private circulation, bears the title "Heart Voices and Home Songs"; he wrote an abridged "Life of William Wilberforce." Living in a day when chains were stretched across the streets on Sunday to stop driving in front of churches during hours of service. Morris broke through the barrier, and was arrested, taken before Mayor Watson, and fined for breach of the city ordinances. His protest was so indignant that the Mayor fined him, also, for "disrespect to the court." In 1829 he married Anne, daughter of James Cheston, of Baltimore; they had six children, one of whom was James Cheston Morris, M. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1854, father of Caspar Morris, M. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1876. Never of robust health, in 1868 he had an attack of "anthrax" (carbuncle). His strength was never the same afterward, and he died March 17, 1884, three years after the death of his wife. They had celebrated their golden wedding in 1879. Tr. Coll. Phys., 3 s., vol. x, p. xxixliii, J. C. Morris. University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1900, J. L. Cham- berlain, 1898-1902. Morris, John (1824-1903) John Morris, medico-legal expert, was born in Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1824, and received his early education at the Lancaster Acad-