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MORLEY

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MORGAN, William Ferdinand, clergyman, was born in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 21, 1816 ; son of Denison and Ursula (Brainard) Morgan ; grand- son of Capt. William Avery and Lydia (Smith) Morgan, and of John Brainard of Haddam, Conn., and a descendant of James and Marjory (Hill) Morgan. He was graduated at Union college, 1837, and at the General Theological seminary, New York city, in 1840. He was ordered deacon in 1841, ordained priest in 1842, and was assistant to the Rev. Dr. Croswell at Trinity church. New Haven, Conn., 1841-44. He wtis married, Aug. 6, 1844, to Catharine, daughter of Amos and Cath- arine (Atwater) Trowbridge of New Haven, Conn. He was rector of Christ church, Norwich, Conn., 1844-57; of St. Thomas's church. New York city, 1857-88. and was made rector emeritus in April, 1888. He went to Paris in 1864 to preach the consecration sermon of the Church of the Holy Trinity, the first Protestant Episcopal church established in Europe, and during his pas- torate at St. Thomas's built a free chapel at a cost of $40,000. He received the degree D.D. from Columbia in 1857. He died in New York city. May 19, 1888.

MORGAN, William S., representative, was born in Monongalia county, Va., Sept. 7, 1801 ; son of Stephen (1781-1849) and Sarah (Summer- ville) Morgan ; grandson of David (b. 1721) and Sarah (Stevens) Morgan ; great-grandson of Col. Morgan and Catharine (Garretson) Morgan. Col. Morgan Morgan was born in Wales, educated in London in the reign of William IH. ; came to Cliristiana, Del., where he married, and was later rector of a church in Wincliester, Va. William S. Morgan pursued a course of study by himself, engaged in farming at While Day, Va., and was a Democratic representative in tlie 24th and 25th congresses, 1835-39. He was chairman of the committee on Revolutionary pensions and de- clined re-election to the 26th congress. He was clerk of the U. S. house of representatives in 1840, a representative in the Virginia legislature, 1840-41, declined re-election, and was a presi- dential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844. He was a naturalist of some celebrity and was employed in the Smithsonian Institution until shortly before liis death in 1876.

MORISON, George Shattuck, engineer, was born in New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 19, 1842 ; son of the Rev. John Hopkins and Emily (Rogers) Mori- son ; grandson of Nathaniel and Mary Ann (Hopkins) Morison, and a descendant of John Morison. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B. , 1863, A.M., and LL.B., 1866, and was admitted to the bar in New York city in 1866. He was a

civil engineer at Kansas City, 1867-71, and in Michigan and Indiana, 1871-73. He was em- ployed in New York city on the Erie railway, 1873-75, and subsequently in general practice, and also had an office in Chicago, where he resided 1887-98. He was chief engineer of the bridge across the Ohio river at Cairo, 111., and of that across the Mississippi river at Memphis, Tenn. He also constructed four other bridges across the Mississippi and ten across the Missouri. He was a member of the board of engineers to determine the greatest practical lengUi of span for the bridge across the Hudson River in 1894 ; a mem- ber of the board of consulting engineers, Depart- ment of Docks, New York city, 1895-97 ; of the board to locate a deep water harbor in southern California, 1896-97, and of the Isthmian Canal commission, 1899-1901. He was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1895, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts anrl Scienc<is.

MORLEY, Edward Williams, educator, was born in Newark, N.J., Jan. 29, 1838 ; son of the Rev. $ardis Brewster and Anna Clarissa (Treat)

Morley ; grandson of Abner and (Gibson) Mor-

ley and of Salah and Anna (Williams) Treat, and a descendant of Able Morley, who settled at West- field, Mass., alx)ut 1650. He was graduated at Williams college, Mass., A.B., 1860, A.M., 1863. He was married, Dec. 24, 1868, to Isabella A., daughter of James Birdsall of Hillsdale, N.Y., and was elected professor of chemistry and geo- logy in Adelbert college of Western Reserve univei-sity, Ohio, in 1869. He was also professor of chemistry in the Cleveland Medical college, 1873-88. He made many original researches, both alone and in company with Prof. Albert A. Michelson (q.v.). He was vice-president of the chemistry section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1883, and • president of the same in 1895; a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an associate member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, Mass. He received the honor- ary degrees : M.D. from the Cleveland Medical college in 1877, Ph. D. from the University of Wooster in 1878, and LL.D. from Adelbert col- lege in 1891, and from Williams college in 1901. He accumulated a chemical library containing the most complete files of chemical journals in the United States. He contributed Atoviie Weight of Oxygen to the *' Smithsonian Contri- butions of Knowledge " (1895).

MORLEY, Frank, educator, was born in Wood- bridge, Suffolk, England, Sept. 9, 1860; son of Joseph Roberts and Elizabeth (Muskett) Morley, and grandson of William and Hannah (Knight) Morley. He attended the grammar school at Woodbridge and was graduated from King's col-