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practice at Greensboro, N.C. He represented Rockingham county in the state legislature in 1821, and Guilford county, 1826-27, as a Whig. He was a member of the state constitution con- vention in 1835. and governor of North Carolina

for two terms, 1841- 45. As governor he furthered the inter- ests of education ; was active in promot- ing public institu- tions and encouraged state improvements. He was president of the Whig national convention at Phila- delphia, June 7, 1848. He established and controlled large cot- ton factories in North Carolina, and was elected the first presi- dent of the North Carolina railroad, which he built, and when finished in 1855. resigned and turned it over to the stockholders in 1855 without one dollar of debt upon the company. He was a member of the state senate, 1860 ; a delegate to the Peace congress at Washington, D.C., 1861, and a representative in the 2d Confederate congress, 1862-65. He founded and owned Edgeworth seminary for young ladies, which became noted. He received the degree A.M. from the University of North Carolina in 1827. He died at Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., Aug. 28. 1866.

MOREHOUSE, Albert Pricket, governor of Missouri, was born near Ashley, Delaware county, Ohio, July 11, 1835; son of Stephen and Harriet (Wood) Morehouse, and grandson of Russell Wood, an early settler of Delaware county, Ohio. Stephen Morehouse, born in Essex county, N.J., settled in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1820, and in 1856 removed to Nodaway county. Mo., where he served as probate judge for a number of years. Albert P. Morehouse was educated in the public scliools and worked on his father's farm until 1853. when he began to teach school. He removed to Missouri with his parents in 1856, taught school there and in Iowa, and studied law. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1860, and practised for a time in Montgomery county, Iowa. He was commis- sioned 1st lieutenant in the Missouri militia, in 1861. In 1862 he engaged in practice at Maryville, Mo. He was married in 1865 to Mattie McFadden of Lexington, Mo. He retired from active prac- tice in 1871. and engaged in the real estate busi- ness. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1872 and 1876, and a re- presentative in the Missouri legislature, 1877-78 and 1883-84. He was elected lieutenant-governor

of Missouri in November, 1884, on the Democratic ticket, John S. Marmaduke being elected gov- ernor, and on the death of Governor Marma- duke, in 1887. he became governor, holding the office until Jan. 1, 1889. He died in Maryville,. Mo., Sept. 23, 1891.

MOREHOUSE, Henry Lyman, minister, wa» born in Stanford, N.Y., Oct. 2, 1834 : son of Seth Seeley and Emma (Bentley) Morehouse, grandson of Lyman and Hannah (Seeley) Morehouse of Fairfield, Conn., and a descendant of Thoniaa Morehouse, who came from England to Wethers- field, Conn., about 1639 and died at Fairfield, Conn. He was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1858, and from the Rochester Theo- logical seminary in 1864. He was pastor at Sagi- naw, Mich., and Rochester, N.Y., 1864-79, corre- sponding secretary of the New York Baptist Union for Ministerial Education, 1877-79, and was cor- responding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission society, 1879-93. He was promi- nent in organizing the American Baptist Educa- tion society and was appointed field secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission society, and corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Education society in 1893. He is the author of : Baptist Home Missions in America (1883); HiV tory of the First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1899), and several pamphlets and poems.

MORELAND, William Hall, first bishop of Sacramento and 188th in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born in Charleston, S.C., April 9, 1861 ; son of Edward McCreight and Caroline (Hall) Moreland ; grandson of Andre w Moreland and of Will- iam Hall, and a de- scendant of Thomas Smith, first landgrave of the colony of South Carolina, 1665. He was graduated at the University of the South, B.Lt., 1881, A.M., 1881, B.S., in 1881 ; was graduated at Berkeley Divinity school in 1884 ; was ordained deacon, June 4, 1884 ; was assist- ant at Christ church, Hartford, Conn., 18- 84-85 ; ordained priest, Aug. 12, 1885, and was rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Nashua, N.H., 1885-93, during which time, by a canvass of the diocese, he raised $32,000 toward the erection of an Episcopal residence at Concord,. N.H. He was married, Sept. 6, 1893, to Harriet E., daughter of Charles Slason of Nashua, N.H. He was rector of St. Luke's church, San Fran-

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