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Cisco. Cal., 18i)3-99, and dean of the convocation, 1890-99. He was elected missionary bishop of Sacramento in 1898, and was consecrated, Jan. 25, 1899, by Bishops Nichols, Leonard, Kendrick, Barker, Johnson and Perrin, being the youngest bishop in the world at the time of his consecra- tion. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the South in 1899. He is the author of What 18 Christianity (1880) ; and 77ie Church or the Churches, Which f (1894).

MORELL, George, jurist, was born in Lenox, Mass., March 22, 1780; son of John Morell, who settled in Lenox about 1778, and a descendant of French Huguenots, who fled to Germany in 1635, and from there to America. He was graduated at Williams college, Mass., A.B., 1807, A.M., 1810 ; studied law under John Russell in Troy, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar Feb. 14, 1811. He was married May 14, 1812, to Maria, daughter of Gen. Samuel B. Webb, an officer in the Revolutionary army. He served in the state militia of New York, 1811-32, through all the grades from ser- geant to major-general. He practised law in Cooperstown, N.Y. ; was clerk of the court of common pleas for Otsego county, 1815 ; master in chancery, 1819, and solicitor and counsellor in chancery, 1823. He was the first judge of the court of common pleas of Otsego county, N.Y., 1827-32, a member of the assembly in 1829, and removed to Michigan in 1832. He was appointed chief-justice of the supreme court of the territory of Michigan, Feb. 26, 1832, as successor to William Woodbridge, and on the admission of Michigan as a state in 1837 he became associate justice of the supreme court under the constitution of 1835. He succeeded Chief-Justice Fletcher, resigned, in 1842, and served until July 18, 1843. He died in Detroit, Mich., March 8, 1845.

MORELL, Qeorge Webb, soldier, was born in Cooperstown, N.Y., Jan. 8,1815; son of Judge George (q. v.) and Maria (Webb) Morell. He vvas graduated at the U. S. Military academy first in- the class of 1835, and was assigned to the corps of engineers. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, Oct., 31, 1826, and resigned from the army, June 30, 1837, to become assistant engineer in the con- struction of the Charleston and Cincinnati rail- road. In 1838-39 he held a similar position on the Michigan Central railroad. He removed to New York city in 1840, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was appointed major of the 4th New York volunteers, July 23, 1846, raised for service in the Mexican war, but the regiment was never mustered in. He was division engineer, 1st divi- sion, N.Y.S.M., with the rank of major, 1849-52, and with the rank of colonel, 1852-61. He was commissioner of the U.S. circuit court for the southern district of New York, 1854-61. He was appointed inspector, 1st division, N. Y. S. M.,

April 15, 1861, and colonel on the staff of General Sanford, N.Y.S.M., organizing regiments and forwarding them to the seat of war, April to May. 1861. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Aug. 9, 1861 ; served in the defense of Washington, 1861-62; with the Army of the Potomac in the Pen- insula canpaign, and commanded a brigade in the skirmish at Howard's bridge,

April 4, 1862, and the seige of Yorktown, April to May, 1862. He commanded the 1st division's Han- cock's 5th corps, in the capture of Han- over Court House ; at Beaver Dam Creek; at Gaines's Mill,

where he opposed Longstreet's right, and at Malvern Hill, where he led the advance, Berden's sharpshooters opening the battle. He was pro- moted major-general of volunteers, July 4, 1862, but the nomination not being made to the senate, it expired March 4, 1863. He took part under General Porter, occupying the extreme left in the battle of Manassas, Aug. 30, 1862 ; in the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, pursued Lee's retreating army, and on the 20th was driven back from the heights of the river bank near Shepherdstown ; and he commanded the troops guarding the upper Potomac, October to December, 1862. He was on waiting orders at Washington, 1862-63 ; in com- mand of draft rendezvous at Indianapolis, Ind., 1863-64, and was mustered out of the service, Dec. 15, 1864. He was married in 1864 to Catherine Schermerhorn, daughter of the Rev. William Creighton, D.D., and engaged in farming at Scar- borough, N.Y. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, of the Union club, and of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. He died at Scarborough, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1883.

MOREY, Frank, representative, was born in Boston, Mass., July 11, 1840. He attended the public schools of Boston, and in 1857 removed to Illinois, where he engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits and studied law. In 1861 he enlisted in the 33d Illinois infantry and served in the Department of the Gulf after the siege of Vicksburg, principally on staff duty, and was mustered out Dec. 31, 1865. He settled in Mon- roe, La., and engaged in cotton planting and in the insurance business. He was a Republican representative in the Louisiana legislature. 1868- 69 ; a member of the commission to revise the statutes and codes of the state, and was a repre-