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MORROW Virginia, and his parents were among the early settlers in that part of the state in which their son was born.

Dr. Morrow was educated at Cumberland College in his native state, and also at Princeton College, Kentucky, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1865. He subsequently received the degree of A. M. from the University of the City of New York in 1880, studied medicine at the University Medical College in New York City, and from this institution received his degree of M. D. in 1873. After graduation he went abroad and continued his medical studies at the École de Medicine de Paris, and also pursued his professional study in the hospitals of London, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, returning in 1874 to his native country to begin the practice of medicine in New York City. In this year he was married to Lucy Bibb, daughter of Thos. J. and Mary Henry Slaughter of New York. There were six children, three of whom survived him at his death. Dr. Morrow held these positions: surgeon to the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island from 1884 to 1904, being president of the medical board in 1895, and later consulting physician to this hospital; surgeon to the out-door department of Bellevue Hospital, and also physician to the department of skin and venereal diseases; consulting dermatologist to St. Vincent's Hospital; attending physician in the department of skin and venereal diseases in the New York Hospital from 1890-1894; lecturer on dermatology in the University Medical College in 1882, and clinical professor of genito-urinary diseases in the same institution in 1884; clinical professor of genito-urinary diseases in the University-Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898. and professor emeritus in 1899. He held membership in the American Academy of Medicine, the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the New York Dermatological Association, the American Dermatological Association, being its president in 1890-1891, the American Medical Association, being chairman of the section on hygiene and sanitary science in 1907, the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York County Medical Society, and many other local and national medical societies. He was corresponding member of la Academia de Medicina de Mexico, also of la Société Française de Dermatologie et de Syphilographie de Paris, La Societa Italiano di Dermatologia and Die Wiener Dermatologische Gessellschaft. He was secretary for America of the first and second International Congress of Dermatology and Syphilography at Paris in 1890 and at Vienna in 1893. He was also Vice-President of the Dermatological section of the Pan American Medical Congress. Dr. Morrow was widely known as an author on medical subjects, especially in reference to his special department of medicine. He was the editor and translator of Fournier's book on syphilis and marriage, which he brought out in 1881, and was the author of venereal memoranda in 1885, and also the author of a work on drug eruptions in 1887. He was editor of the Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases from 1882-1892. He likewise was the author of an atlas on skin and venereal diseases, which appeared in the years of 1888-1889. He published a work in three volumes on a system of genito-urinary diseases in 1892-1894, and a book on social diseases and marriage in 1904. His essay on Leprosy in 1889, the material for which he gathered on a tour of observation in California, Mexico, and the Sandwich Islands, was a classic. In 1905 he began a movement in this country in the organization of a society for "Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis," the object of which was to overcome "the evil of the ages and a curse to the human race," being president of this society from 1905 to 1913. This subject of sex hygiene was one in which he had to educate public opinion and sentiment, and he so far succeeded in a crusade against the venereal evil that he enlisted the most distinguished and conservative members of the profession. The organization of this crusade was followed by the formation of similar societies in thirty states. These various societies were federated in 1910 under the name of the "American Federation of Sex Hygiene" with Dr. Morrow as its president. The society has done an important work throughout America. He was a man of great force, of wonderful executive ability, of undaunted courage, of highest character, and of splendid achievement.

Morton, Samuel George (1799-1851)

Samuel Morton was the son of George Morton, who came to this country from Ireland at the age of sixteen, and of Jane, daughter of John and Margaret Cummings, of Philadelphia. They had nine children, of whom Samuel was the youngest. He was born in Philadelphia, January 26, 1799.

The father died when Samuel was but six months old, and Mrs. Morton with her three