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MORRIL

lege, Cambridge, England, A.B., 1883, A.M., 1886, Sc.D., 1898. He was a master in Bath college, England, 1884-^7 ; instructor in Haverford col- lege, Pa., 1887-88, and professor of pure matlie- matics, 1888-1900. In 1900 he was appointed professor of pure mathematics at Johns Hopkins university, succeeding Dr. Thomas Craig. He was elected a menil)er of the American Mathematical society, the American Pliilosophical society and the London Mathematical society. He was mar- ried, July 11, 1889, to Lillian Janet, daughter of James and Elizabeth Jane (Clay) Bird. He pub- lished with Professor Harkness, of Bryn Mawr col- lege, a Treatise on the Tlieory of Functions (1893) ; and Introduction to tlic Theory of Analytic Func- tions (1898), besides many mathematical memoirs, principally on geometry.

MORLEY, John Henry, clergyman and edu- cator, was born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 8, 1840 ; son of the Rev. Sardis Brewster and Anna Cla- rissa (Treat) Morley. He attended the common schools of Hartford, Conn., and Attleboro, Mass., and prepared for college under his father. He was graduated from Williams college, A.B., 1863, and A.M., 18G6, and from the Andover Theolo- gical seminary in 1866. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Jan. 2, 1867, at Mag- nolia, Iowa ; was jxistor there, 1867-68 ; was mar- ried, Oct. 12, 1871, to Edith Theodisa Johnson ; was pastor at Sioux City, Iowa, 1867-76 ; at Wi- nona, Minn., 1876-83 ; at St. Paul, Minn., 1883-84, and was superintendent of the Congregational Home Missionary society for Minnesota, 1884-99. He was elected in 1900 president of Fargo college, Dak., and the same year received from Williams college tho honorary degree of LL.D.

MORPHIS, Joseph Lewis, representative, was born in McNairy county, Tenn., April 17, 1831; grandson of Joseph Morphis, a soldier in the Rev- olution. He was left an orphan at an early age, and was brought upas a planter. He represented McNairy county in the Tennessee legislature as a Whig in 1859 ; entered the Confederate army as captain in 1861, and removed his family to Pon- totoc, Miss., in 1863. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1865; repre- sented Pontotoc county in the Mississippi legis- lature, 1866-68, and was a Republican representa- tive from the second congressional district of Mississippi in the 41st and 42d congresses, serving from Feb. 28, 1870, to March 8, 1878. He was U. S. marshall for the northern district of Missis- sippi, 1877-85. In 1890 he was licensed as a trader on the Osage Indian reservation and was still engaged in that business in 1902.

MORRELL, Daniel Johnson, representative, was born in North Berwick, Maine, Aug. 8, 1821. His parents were members of the Society of Friends, and after receiving a common school

education Daniel removed to Philadelphia and engaged in business as a merchant. He was manager of the Cambria Iron Works at Johns- town, Pa., 1855-84. This concern manufactured iron rails, 1855-71, and in 1871 was one of the first to manufacture Bessemer steel rails. He was a Republican representative in the 40th and 41st congresses, 1867-71 ; was chairman of the stand- ing committee on manufactures ; introduced, on March 9, 1870. a bill to provide for the celebra- tion at Philadelphia of the one hundredth anniversary of American Independence ; was chairman of the executive committee of the centennial commission ; a commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1878, and president of the American Iron and Steel association. He died in Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 20, 1885.

MORRELL, Imogene Robinson, artist, was born in Attleboro, Mass. ; daughter of Otis and Sarah Dean (Raymond) Robinson ; granddaughter of Col. Obed Rol)inson, of the Revolutionary army, and of Ephriam Raymond, of Norton, Mass. ; great-granddaughter of Josiah Dean (1748^ 1818), representative from Massachusetts in the 10th congress, and a descendant from Elder Robinson. She studied painting at Newark, N.J., and subsequently in New York city ; taught the art at Charlestown and Auburndale, Mass., and in 1856 studied in Diisseldorf, Germany, under Adolf Schroedter and Camphausen. She also studied in Paris under Francois Louis Fran- ^ais and Thomas Couture, 1864-74. As Imogene Robinson she had twelve medals for art works. She was married in 1869 to Col. Abram Morrell. She established the National Academy of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and was a teacher in Washington for several years. Her more famous paintings are : " The First Battle of the Puritans "and "Washington Welcoming the Provision Trains at Newburg, N.Y., in 1778," on canvas nine feet long (1874), awarded medals at the Centennial in Philadelphia, 1876, exhibited at the Minneapolis exposition in 1889, and insured by the exposition for $100,000. Her portraits in- clude : John A. Dix, Howell Cobb and John C. Spencer, cabinet officers, painted for the capitol at Washington, in 1882. She also painted por- traits of Mrs. Cleveland, Collis P. Huntington, Thomas Pierce of ]\Iassachusetts, William W. Corcoran, President Garfield and many others, which portraits, with 200 other works of her brush, valued at $225,000, were burned in a stor- age warehouse in 1896. She had in progress in 1902 The Triumphant Entrance of Washington into Boston, 1776. Goupil paid Mrs. Morrell $2,000 for the right to engrave her Washington.

MORRIL, David Lawrence, senator, was born in Epping, N.H., June 10, 1772; son of Samuel and Anna (Lawrence) Morril, and grand-