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missioned brigadier-general at the request of Gen. Robert E. Lee after the battle of Chancel- lorsville, May 1-4, 1863, and given the command of Rhodes's brigade. On reacliing Richmond and hearing of the death of Colonel Webb of the 51st Alabama cavalry, he declined the promotion and returned to the command of the regiment. He commanded the 1st brigade, Martin's division, Wheeler's cavalry corps, at Cliickamauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863. He was promoted brigadier-general a second time in November, 1863, placed in com- mand of the 1st, 3d, 4th, 7th and 51st Alabama cavalry, and commanded a division of Wlieeler's cavalry at Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. He was afterward engaged in the Atlanta cam- paign under Generals Johnston and Hood in the protection of the flank of the Confederate army, and continued with Wheeler's cavalry on de- tached service until the surrender of Johnston's army. He resumed practice in Selma, Ala. , in 1865, and was a presidential elector on the Tilden anil Hendricks ticket in 1876. He was elected to the United States senate as a Democrat in 1876, and was re-elected in 1882, 1888, 1894 and 1900. While in the senate he served as chairman of the committee on foreign aflfairs, 1893 ; was appointed with Justice John M. Harlan arbitrator on the Bering sea fisheries by President Harrison in 1892, and was one of the commissioners to organ- ize the government in Hawaii after the passage of the annexation bill by President McKinley in July, 1898.

MORGAN, Junius Spencer, banker, was born at West Springfield, Mass., April 14, 1813 ; son of Joseph and Sally (Spencer) Morgan ; grandson of Samuel and Martha (Eells) Spencer. His parents removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1817, and Junius attended the public school, and was a cadet, 1825- 28, at Capt. Alden Partridge's milita-ry academy (now Norwich university), Vt. He was em- ployed as a clerk in a dry goods store in Hart- ford, and in the banking house of Morgan, Ketch- um & Co., of New York, 1834-36. He was a member of the governor's foot guards, 1838-41. He was junior partner of the firm of Howe, Mather & Co., dry goods merchants, Hartford, Conn., 1836-51, and then removed to Boston^ Mass., where with James M. Beebe he founded the dry goods establishment of J. M. Beebe, Morgan & Co. He visited England in 1853, and in 1854 severed his connection with the Boston firm to enter into partnership with George Pea- body & Co., bankers, in London. Mr. Peabody retired from the business in 1864, and the firm became J. S. Morgan & Co. While on a visit to the United States in 1877, Mr. Morgan was given a dinner in New York city in recognition of his action in upholding the foreign credit of Ameri- can institutions. He gave large sums of money

to charity and to educational institutions, includ- ing §50,000 to Trinity college, and $25,000 to the Orphan asylum, Hartford, in 1886, in memory of his mother ; and subscribed $100,000 for a free public library in Hartford on condition that a building fund amounting to $400,000 should be raised. He gave a large painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city in 1887 ; a collection of early editions of Virgil, valued at $50,000, to Princeton university in 1896, and a complete series of fac-similes of manuscripts in London, relating to America from 1763 to 1783, to Yale uni- versity. He left a fortune of nearly $10,000,000 at his death, and bequeathed large sums to relatives, partners and servants. He was mar- ried, May 2, 1836, to Juliet, daughter of the Rev. John and Mary (Lord) Pierpont, of Boston, Mass. He died in Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 8, 1890.

MORGAN, Lewis Henry, anthropologist, was born in Aurora, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1818; son of the Hon. Jedediah and Harriet (Steele) Smith Mor- gan ; grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Leeds) Morgan and of Lemuel Steele, and a descendant of James and Margery (Hill) Morgan, New Lon- don, Conn., 1650. He was graduated at Union college in 1840, was admitted to the bar, and set- tled in practice in Rochester, N.Y., in 1842. He was married, Aug. 13, 1851, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Lemuel Steele, of Albany, N. Y. He retired from practice in 1864 to devote himself to scientific pursuits. He was a member of the state assembly in 1861, and a state senator, 1868-70. He began to study the native Indian tribes, especially the Six Nations, in 1844, and joined the Grand Order of the Iroquois, a secret organiza- tion, which enabled him to make a special study of their civil and domestic relations. He was adopted by a tribe of Senecas, and while living with them examined and surveyed many of the traces of ancient Indian occupation in western New York. He urged the formation of a museum of Indian antiquities to illustrate the aboriginal era of American history by the University of the City of New York, in 1848, and contributed papers and aboriginal utensils and relics to the state museum. He made a study of the Ojibway In- dians while at Marquette, Mich., in 1858, and found that the society and government of this tribe was similar to the Iroquois. This induced him to continue his investigations, and with the aid of the Smithsonian Institution, agents of the department of state and others who became in- terested in the matter, he succeeded in recording the kinship systems of more than four-fifths of the world. The result of his researches was published by the Smithsonian Institution as •' Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family " (1869). He also wrote a second