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LEFT MORRISON 314 MORSE 1907. Went to Hawaii and Panama States navy, on June 3, 1898, sank the (1912-1913) to plan defense works. End "Merrimac" at the entrance to the harbor of 1915 became Brigadier-General, and to prevent the Spanish fleet from escap- Major-General in 1917. Made tour of ing. On their capture, while attempting inspection in France during 1918, then to regain their vessels, the men were was appointed Director of Training. His imprisoned for some time in Morro. teaching and writing has caused radical, ^^^^„ changes in drill methods in the U. S. ,, ^9?^^°^^ WILLIAM W., Judge of Army. His chief work is "A Study in the United States Circuit Court; born Troop Teaching" (1911), in which he ]^ Milton, Ind., m 1843, and educated was assisted by E. T. Munson. i" the public schools of California. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar, and MORRISON, THEOppRE NEVIN, after serving as Assistant United States American Protestant Episcopal bishop; District Attorney became in 1882-1885 ^,^™ .^"^T^' ^y-' ^^^^'.„ Educated at counsel before the Alabama Claims Com- Illmois College, Jacksonville, 111., and at mission. From 1885-1892 he served in the General Theological Seminary. Took Congress as representative from Cali- Holy Orders in 1874. Rector of St. Paul's fornia. Prominent in the politics of the Church, Pekin, 111., 1873-1876. Church of Republican party, he was appointed by the Epiphany, Chicago, 1876-1899. Con- President McKinley United States Cir- secrated Bishop of Iowa, 1899. cuit Judge, May 20, 1897. MORRIST9WN, a city and county. ^q^q j^ j^^^^^^^ mythology, the god seat of Morris co., N. J.; on the Lacka- qJ death wanna and the Morristown and Erie railroads; 31 miles W. of New York. It MORSE, EDWARD SYLVESTER, is a favorite residence suburb of New American naturalist and Orientalist; York. The city is built on elevated born in Portland, Me., in 1838. Gradu- ground about 500 feet above sea-level, ated from Harvard and taught zoology and is surrounded by beautiful ranges and comparative anatomy at Bowdoin, of hills. Here are the remains of Fort 1871-1874, and at Imperial University, Nonsense, built by Washington's troops Tokyo, Japan, 1877-1880. During this and now marked with a memorial monu- latter period he acquired a profound ment, the building occupied by Washing- knowledge of Chinese and Japanese ce- ton as his headquarters, which is filled ramies. Now President Boston Society with relics of the Revolutionary period, of Natural History. Notable among his All Souls' Hospital, Memorial Hosoital, works are "First Book in Zoology" Morris Academy, Dana Seminary, public (1875) ; "Early Races of Man in Japan" library, gas and electric light plants, (1879) ; "Glimpses of China and Chinese State and National banks, etc. Four Homes" (1902) ; and "Mars and Its Mys- miles distant, on Morris Plains, is the tery" (1906). State Lunatic Asylum, one of the most mORSE, JOHN TORREY, author; complete institutions of its kind m the ^^^n in 1840. He studied at Harvard world. The city has manufactures of graduating in 1860, and then till 1880 ^'o^'n^'/foon'x io°?J1q^** ^^- ^^^^^^ practiced law at Boston. For three years i^,bU/; (ly^U) 1^,54». ending 1879 he lectured on histoi-y at MORRISTOWN, a city of Tennessee, Harvard, and was associate editor with the county-seat of Hamblen co., on the Henry Cabot Lodge on the "International Southern and the Knoxville and Bristol Review." Since 1880 he has given him- railroads. It is the center of a rich agrl- self over to literature, particularly in the cultural region, and has also important biographical field. His works include: manufactures including flour, stoves, "Treatise on the Law Relating to Banks hosiery, furniture, concrete, wagons, etc. and Banking"; "Law of Arbitration and It is the seat of the Morristown Normal Award"; "Famous Trials"; "Life of and Industrial College, and an institu- Alexander Hamilton" (2 vols.) ; "Life tion for negroes. Pop (1910) 4 007* and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes" (1920) 5,875. ' ' (2 vols.) ; "John Quincy Adams"; Tvrm?T?n ra.<zrrTt? „ e • 1. * _4. 4. "Thomas Jefferson"; "John Adams"; fV,r^?^?.?..o^? +^ '1,^ Spanish fort at "Benjamin Franklin"; "Abraham Lin- theentiance to the harbor of Havana, ^oln"; "Life and Letters of Colonel Cuba; its dungeons are said to have been Hpn™ t pi » the prisons of many convicted of political ■"*''" ^ ^^^' offenses. Also an imposing fortification MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, on the cliffs overlooking Santiago Bay, an American inventor; born in Charles- Cuba. It was in sight of this fort and town, Mass., April 27, 1791. He was under fire of its guns that Lieutenant educated at Yale College, where he de- Hobson and seven men of the United voted special attention to chemistry and