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his troops could arrive from Hadley, other aid coming from Boston. He was married about 1643 to Prudence Gilbert of Beverly, Mass., who was a fellow passenger with him from England. He found means to send a proposal to her at Bev- erly, where she had settled with friends, and on being accepted, went to Beverly on foot accom- panied by an Indian guide. They were married and made the journey back on foot with such relief as could be obtained from one horse laden with household goods. The Indian headed the party, Captain MoKgan, with a loaded blunderbuss pointed at the Indian, came next, and then the bride leading the horse. After the death of his first wife, he was married secondly, Feb. 15, 1670, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bliss of Springfield, Mass. He was the father of eight children. The citizens of Springfield erected, in

1879, a bronze statue to commemorate his services. He died in Springfield, Mass., May 28, 1699.

MORGAN, Philip Hicky, diplomatist, was born in Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 9, 1825; son of the Hon. Thomas Gibber and Eliza Anne (Mc- Kennan) Morgan; grandson of Gen. John Mor- gan; great-grandson of Col. George Morgan of the Revolutionary army, and a descendant of David Morgan of Philadelphia, Pa. He was ad- mitted to the bar in New Orleans, La., in 1847; served as a volunteer lieutenant in the Mexican war, and practised in New Orleans, 1847-54. He was married. May 22, 1852, to Beatrice Les- lie, daughter of James and Charlotte (Suther- land) Ford of Baton Rouge. He was judge of the New Orleans district court, 1855-61, and prac- tised law in New Orleans, 1861-61. He was U.S. district attorney for the eastern district of Loui- siana, 1865-72; justice of the Louisiana supreme court, 1873-77; represented the United States on the international court of appeal in Egypt, consti- tuted Jan. 30, 1876, 1877-80, declining re-ap- pointment, and was U.S. minister to Mexico by appointment from President Hayes from Jan. 26,

1880, to March 23, 1885. He then practised law in New York city until his death, Aug. 13, 1900.

MOROAN, Thomas Jefferson, soldier and educationist, was born in Franklin, Ind., Aug. 17, 1839; son of Lewis and Mary (Causey) Mor- gan, and grandson of Adonijah Morgan. His father was a Baptist clergyman and a founder of Franklin college. He matriculated at Franklin college, but left in 1861 to enlist in the 7th In- diana infantry; and in August, 1862, was commis- sioned 1st lieutenant in the 70th Indiana regi- ment, Col. Benjamin Harrison. He subsequently recruited the 14th, 42d and 44th U.S. colored in- fantry, and became successively major, lieu- tenant-colonel and colonel. He commanded the first colored brigade organized in the Army of the Cumberland under Gen. George H. Thomas,

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and also served for a time on the staff of Gen. O. O. Howard commanding the 4th army corps. He had two horses shot under him in battle, and was brevetted brigadier-general for his gallantry at the battle of Nashville. General Howard gave him the credit of saving Sherman's army from dis- aster at Resaca. He was'graduated from the Roch- ester Theological seminary, 1868, and was sec- retary of the New York Baptist Union for Minis- terial Education, 1869-72. In 1870 he married Caroline, daughter of the Hon. Frederick Starr of Rochester, N.Y. He was professor of homi- letics and church history in the Baptist Union Theological seminary, Chicago, 111., 1872-79; and later principal of state normal schools at Potsdam, N.Y., and Providence, R.I. He served as U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs un- der President Harri- son, 1889-93, during which time he broke up the Indian con- tract school system; secured civil service rules to many posi- tions in the Indian service, and increased the school attendance from 16,000 to 21,000. In 1893 he accepted the secretaryship of the American Baptist Home Mission society, which office he still held in 1902. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the University of Chicago, and that of.LL.D. from Franklin col- lege, Indiana. He became an overseer of the cor- poration of Columbian university, Washington, D.C., in 1889. He is the author of: Studies in Pedagogy, Patriotic Citizenship and The Negro in America. He died at Yonkers, N. Y., July 13, 1903. MORGAN, William, painter, was born in Lon- don, England, in 1828. His father was a London tradesman of means, and he studied art under Couture in Paris, 1844-45. "Wearying of studio life he shipped as a sailor, and finally settled in New York city, where he secured employ- ment as a draughtsman. He pursued the study of art in the National Academy of Design and subsequently returned to painting as a means of support. He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1863, and subsequently a member of the Artists' Fund so- ciety. He made a specialty of genre pictures and his more important works include: Emancipa- tion (1868); The Legend (1875); Song without Words (1876); Motherhood (1882); Reverie (1882); In the Hay-Loft (1882); Summer (1883); The Sortie (1884); Andante (1885); Blowing