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 84:8 MORROW MORSE of the building is 1,243 ft., and the depth, from the front of the main centre to the rear of the extreme wing, 542 ft. The wings on the right and left of the centre building are three stories high, except those at the extreme ends, which are two stories. It is built princi- pally of light granite quarried on the grounds, in ornamental style, and will accommodate about 1,000 patients. MORROW, a central county of Ohio, drained by the head streams of Vernon and Olentangy or Whetstone rivers; area, 370 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 18,583. The surface is undulating and the soil highly fertile. It is intersected by the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis railroad. A large quarry of free- stone is worked near the capital. The chief productions in 1870 were 207,714 bushels of wheat, 615,679 of Indian corn, 343,300 of oats, 92,452 of potatoes, 20,589 of flax seed, 31,242 Ibs. of flax, 67,077 of maple sugar, 532,348 of wool, 652,684 of butter, and 38,106 tons of hay. There were 7,985 horses, 16,040 cattle, 118,291 sheep, and 16,820 swine; 7 manufac- tories of carriages and wagons, 1 of dressed flax, 1 woollen factory, 3 flour mills, and 14 saw mills. Capital, Mount Gilead. MORROW, Jeremiah, an American statesman, born in Gettysburg, Pa., Oct. 6, 1771, died in Warren co., Ohio, March 22, 1852. In 1795 he removed to the Northwest territory, and in 1802 was elected a delegate to the con- vention for forming the state constitution of Ohio. He was the first representative in con- gress from that state, serving from 1803 to 1813, and was United States senator from 1813 to 1819. From 1822 to 1826 he was governor, then canal commissioner, and from 1841 to 1843 was again a member of congress. MORSE. See WALRUS. MORSE, Edward S., an American naturalist, born in Portland, Me., June 18, 1838. He prepared himself for a mechanical engineer, and spent several years as a draughtsman in the Portland locomotive works, during which time he studied zoology. In 1859 he became connected with the museum of natural history at Cambridge under Agassiz, and in 1867 with the Boston society of natural history as curator of mollusca ; and he was one of the first officers of the Peabody academy at Salem, where he has long resided. In 1868 he was made a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, and in 1871 received the degree of Ph. D. from Bowdoin college, where until 1873 he was professor of comparative anatomy and zoology. In 1872 he was elected lecturer on zoology at Harvard college. Prof. Morse has been very successful as a public lecturer on natural history. His principal papers have been on the " Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine," " A Classification of Mollusca, based on the Principle of Cephalization," "On the Land Slides in the Vicinity of Portland, Me.," " On the Tarsus and Carpus of Birds," " On the Systematic Position of the Brachiopoda," and " On the Embryology of Terebratulina," which have appeared in the publications of the Boston society of natural history, the Portland society of natural history, the Essex institute at Salem, and the New York lyceum of natural history. He has endeavored to show that the relations of the brachiopoda are with the chse- topod worms, and not with the mollusca, where they have heretofore been placed. MORSE. I. Jedidiah, an American geogra- pher, born in Woodstock, Conn., Aug. 23, 1761, died in New Haven, June 9, 1826. He graduated at Yale college in 1783, was licensed to preach in 1785, in 1786 was tutor in Yale college, and in 1789 was installed as pastor of the first Congregational church in Charles- town, Mass. In 1794 he received the honorary degree of D. D. from the university of Edin- burgh. He prepared in 1784, at New Haven, a small 18mo geography, which was the first work of the kind published in America. This was followed by larger geographies and gaz- etteers of the United States from materials obtained by travelling and correspondence. Jeremy Belknap, the historian of New Hamp- shire, Thomas Hutchins, geographer general of the United States, Ebenezer Hazard, and others, who had undertaken a similar task, contributed to his use the materials they had gathered ; and for 30 years he remained with- out an important competitor in this depart- ment. Reprints of the early editions of his larger geographical works were published in Great Britain, and French and German trans- lations in Paris and Hamburg. Much of Dr. Morse's life was spent in religious controversy, in maintaining the orthodox faith in the New England churches against Unitarianism. He engaged actively in 1804 in the enlargement of the Massachusetts general association of Congregational ministers ; in 1805 he estab- lished the "Panoplist," a monthly religious periodical, of which he was sole editor for five years ; he was prominent in founding the Andover theological seminary, and in effect- ing the union between the Hopkinsians and other Calvinists on their common symbol, the assembly's catechism, the articles of which union were signed in his own study in Charles- town, in the night of Nov. 30, 1807, by himself, Dr. Samuel Spring, and Dr. Eliphalet Pearson ; and he participated in the organiza- tion of the Park street church in Boston in 1808. His persevering opposition to the so- called "liberal" views of religion brought on him a persecution which deeply affected his naturally delicate health ; and in 1820 he re- signed his pastoral charge. In that year he was commissioned by the government to visit the Indian tribes on our N. W. borders ; and the record of his labors was published in 1822 under the title of "Indian Report," &c. Dr. Morse also published "A Compendious His- tory of New England," in conjunction with Elijah Parish, D. D. (Cambridge, 1804; 3d ed. enlarged, 1820); "Annals of the American