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volume, ♦' Ancient Society " (1877), the result of his research on tribal society. He was called the " Father of American Anthropology." He be- came a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1875 ; president of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, 1879, and a member of other American and European scien- tific societies. He received the honorary degree LL.D. from Union college in 1873; contributed a series of "Letters on the Iroquois" to the Aviericayi Review over the signature '* Skenan- doah " (1847), and is the author of : The League of the Troqiioia (1851) ; Tlie American Beaver and his Works (1868) and Houses and House Life of the American Aborigines (1881). He died in Roch- ester, N. Y.. Dec. 17. 1881.

MORGAN, Matthew Somerville, artist, was born in London, England, April 27, 1839 ; son of Matthew and Mary (Somerville) Morgan, both of whom were actors. He was a scene painter in Princess's theatre, London, for a time, and later artist and correspondent of the Illustrated London News in Rome, Italy. He studied art in Paris, Italy and Spain ; made a journey into Africa by the French Algeria route in 1858, and served as war correspondent of the Illustrated London News during the Austro-Italian war in 1859. He was proprietor and joint editor of the London Toma- hawk, a comic paper, and made a series of cartoons ridiculing the royal family. He was one of the founders of London Fun, and was the principal scene painter at Covent Garden during the run of Italian opera, 1867-69. He came to the United States in 1870 as cartoonist and caricaturist for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. He was manager of a theatrical poster lithographic es- tablishment at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1880-85, and organized in Cincinnati the Matt Morgan Art Pottery company in 1883, and the Cincinnati Art Students' league. He returned to New York city and opened a studio as a scene painter and illustrator. He painted pictures for Roman Catholic churches, several panoramic views of the civil war, exhibited in Cincinnati in 1886, and at the time of his death was finishing scenery for Madison Square Garden, New York. He con- tributed to the exhibitions of the Water-Color so- ciety. He published American War Cartoons (1874). He died in New York city, June 2, 1890.

MORGAN, Michael Ryan, soldier, was born in Nova Scotia, Jan. 18, 1833, ; son of James Ryan and Mary (McGrath) Morgan. He attended school in New Orleans, was graduated from the U. S. Military academy in 1854, was promoted 2d lieutenant of 3d artillery, July 1, 1854, served on garrison duty, 1854-56, w^as promoted 1st lieuten- ant, Nov. 11, 1856, and served on the Spokane expedition, Washington, 1858. He was a mem- ber of the Harper's Ferry expedition to suppress

John Brown's raid in 1859, and was in garrison at the artillery school for practice, Fort Monroe, Va., 1859-61. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he declined promotion to the rank of captain of tlie 11th infantry, was promoted captain of staff and commissary of subsistence, Aug. 3, 1861, and was chief of commissariat to the Port Royal ex- pedition, S. C, Aug. 12, 1861, and of the Depart- ment of the South, March 31, 1862, to May 1,

1864, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on the staff of the 10th army corps. He was present at Morris Island during the operations against Forts Sumter, Wagner and Gregg, July-November, 1863. He was chief of commissariat of the 10th army corps in 1864, and was brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel, July 6, 1864, " for distinguished services as chief commissary of subsistence of the armies operating in the cam- paign of 1864 before Richmond, Va." He en- gaged in the Battle of Bermuda Hundred, the siege of Petersburg, the combat of Chapin's Farm, the engagements before Petersburg, and in the pursuit of the Confederate army, terminating April 9, 1865, on the staff of Lieutenant-General Grant. He was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. A., April 9, 1865, '* for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent army under Gen. R. E. Lee." He was lieutenant-colonel, ex officio, June 6 to Dec. 29, 1865, serving as inspector of the subsistence department at the headquarters of the armies of the United States, June 6-Aug. 26, 1865 ; was depot commissary at Fort Leaven- worth, Kan., 1865-66 ; was promoted major of staff and commissary of subsistence, Nov. 17,

1865, and served as chief of commissariat. De- partment of the Missouri, 1866-73. He was pro- moted lieutenant-colonel Aug. 28, 1888, colonel and assistant commissary-general, July 14, 1890, and brigadier-general and commissary-general of subsistence, Oct. 8, 1894. He was retired as brigadier-general U. S. army, Jan. 18, 1897, and removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he was re- siding in 1902.

MORGAN, Miles, soldier, was born in Llan- daflF, Wales, in April, 1616 ; son of William Morgan, who removed from Llandaff to Bristol, England, previous to 1635, and became a merchant. Miles emigrated from Bristol to America in March, 1636, and reached Boston, Mass., the following April. He joined the party led by William Pynchon in May, 1636, which started from Roxbury, Mass., and founded the settlement at Springfield, Mass. In conjunction with Col. John Pynchon he built a brick house and stockade in 1660. He took part in King Philip's War, and on Oct. 16, 1675, at the massacre of the inhabitants of Springfield by the Indians, the survivors took refuge in this house and stockade until Col. John Pynchon with