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Rh war. He then returned to the United States and removed from Kentucky to a plantation near Green ville, Miss., where his health failed. In con- nection with Judge Mason Brown he published a " Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, etc.. to 24 Feb., 1834," which was in use until the adoption of the new constitution (4 vols., Frankfort, lSo4).

MOREHEAD, James Turner, statesman, b. in Bullitt county, Ky., 24 May, 1797; d. in Coving- ton, Ky., 28 Dec, 1854. He received his edu- cation at Transylvania university, studied law at Russellville, and began practice at Bowling Green in 1818. He served several terms in the Kentucky legislature, and in 1832 was elected lieu- tenant-governor of the state. On the death of Gov. Breathitt in 1834, Mr. Morehead succeeded to his office. He was elected to the U. S. senate in 1841, and served a term of six years in that body. After its expiration he practised law at Covington. He published an " Address Commemorative of the First Settlers of Kentucky at Boonesborough " (Frankfort, 1840) ; and " Practice and Proceedings at Law in Kentuckv " (1840).

MOREHEAD, John Motley, governor of North Carolina, b. in Pittsylvania county, Va., 4 July, 1796 ; d. in Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., 28 Aug., 1866. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1817, studied law. was admit- ted to the bar in 1819, and acquired a large practice. He served in the North Carolina legislature, and early became a Whig, being a warm friend of Henry Clay. From 1841 till 1845 he was governor of North Carolina. In 1848 he was president of the National Whig convention that nominated Gen. Zachary Taylor for president.

MOREHOUSE, George Read, physician, b. in Mount Holly, N. J., 25 March, 1829. He was grad- uated at Princeton in 1848, and at Jefferson medical college in 1851. From 1862 till 1865 he was acting assistant surgeon in charge of the special hospitals for nervous diseases in Philadelphia, and he is a member of the principal medical societies of that city, where he practises his profession. In addition to many papers, including one on "Researches on the Anatomy and Physiology of Respiration in the Chelonia " with S. Weir Mitchell, published by the Smithsonian institution (1858), he also wrote with the same author "Gun-shot Wounds and other Injuries of the Nerves " (Philadelphia, 1864).

MOREIRA, Luiz da Ciinha (mo-ray'-e-rah), Brazilian naval officer, b. in Bahia, 1 Oct., 1777 ; d. in Rio Janeiro, 28 Aug., 1865. At the age of seven he went with his parents to Lisbon and entered the College Dos Nobles, where he was grad- uated as pilot in 1795. In 1799 he was promoted lieutenant, and two years afterward captain in the navy. In 1807 he commanded one of the vessels that conveyed the royal family to Brazil. In 1809 he was attached to the expedition for the conquest of Cayenne, led the forces that occupied Proaqui, and was present at several battles till the occupa- tion of that province. He was afterward promoted rear-admiral, and in 1812 sent in a secret commis- sion to Buenos Ayres. In 1816 he occupied Mal- donado, and in 1817 he was at the siege of Pernam- buco, where a revolution had begun. From 1817 till 1822 he served in the conquest of the province of Cisplatina, Uruguay. In 1822 he was appointed secretary of the navy, from which office he retired in 1823, not being willing to sign the bill for the dissolution of the constituent assembly. In 1825 he was promoted inspector of the navy-yard, and in 1826 director of the Academia de marinha of the city of Rio Janeiro. In 1831 he was offered the presidency of the province of Para, but declined. He took an active part in the elevation of Pedro II. to the throne, and in 1844 aided in suppressing the revolution of Rio Grande. Until his death he took an active part in politics, affili- ating with the most advanced party. In 1849 he was made Viscount of Cabo Frio and promoted admiral of the navy.

MORELL, George, jurist, b. in Lenox, Mass., 22 March, 1786; d. in Detroit. Mich.. 8 March, 1845. He was graduated at Williams in 1807, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1811, and settled in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was the first judge of the Otsego county court in 1827, re- appointed in 1832, and in 1829 was a member of the assembly. From 1832 till 1836 he was U. S. judge of Michigan territory, and he was a judge of the Michigan supreme court from 1836 till 1843, and its chief justice from 18 July, 1843, until his death. He married a daughter of Gen. Samuel B. Webb.— Their son, George Webb, soldier, b. in Cooperstown, N. Y., 8 Jan., 1815; d. in Scar- borough, N. Y., 12 Feb., 1883. He was graduated first in his class at the U. S. military academy in 1835, assigned to the corps of engineers, and served in the improvement of Lake Erie harbors. He was made 2d lieutenant of engineers. 31 Oct., 1836, and was engaged in the Ohio and Michigan boundary survevs and in the construction of Fort Adams, Newport harbor, R. I., in 1836-'7. On 30 June, 1837, he resigned his commission and engaged in railroad construction in North and South Carolina and Michigan until 1840, when he removed to New York, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. From 1854 till 1861 he was commissioner of the U. S. circuit court for the southern district of New York. In 1861 he was colonel and chief of staff to Gen. Edward S. Sanford in organizing regiments and forwarding them to the seat of war, and en- gaged in the defences of Washington and in opera- tions around Harper's Ferry, Va. He was appoint- ed brigadier-general of volunteers on 9 Aug., 1861, and assigned to a brigade in Gen. Fitz-John Porter's division in the Army of the Potomac. He partici- pated in the siege of Yorktown, and he took Gen. Porter's division when that officer was promoted to the command of the fifth army corps, 18 JMay, . He was engaged in the battles of Hanover Court-House, Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mills, and Malvern Hill, and was promoted major-general of volunteers ; but his name was not sent to the senate, and his commission expired on 4 March, 1863. He commanded the forces that guarded the upper Potomac from 30 Oct. till 16 Dec, 1862, and the draft rendezvous at Indianapolis, Ind., from 15 Dec, . till 29 Aug., 1864. He was mustered out of service on 15 Dec, 1864, and subsequently resided on a farm near Tarrytown, N. Y.

MORELL, William, clergyman, b. in England; d. there. He came to Massachusetts in 1623 with the company that was sent out by the Plymouth council under the command of Capt. Robert Gorges, son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges (q. v.). He was a minister of the established church and bore a com- mission from the ecclesiastical court to exercise superintendence over the churches that were, or might be, established in the colony. The attempt by this company to form a settlement at Wessagussett (now Weymouth) was unsuccessful. After Gorges's departure Morell remained a year at Plymouth, and then followed him to England, where he soon published a poem entitled "Nova Anglia" (London) in Latin hexameters, which was afterward translated into English heroics and dedicated to Charles I. It is mainly occupied with a description of the animal inhabitants of New England, and the