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 MORRIS

MORRIS

and is the author of : The Silent Singer (1899) ; Little Jim Crow, and other stories of children (1899); Life on the Stage (1901); A Pasteboard Croivn, H, novel (1902); Stage Confidences (1902); Wonien of the Bible, to include a series of twelve volumes of wluch Ruth, Estlier and Tlie Mag- dalene were ready for the press in 1902.

MORRIS, Daniel, representative, was born at Fayette, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1812; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Brown) Morris. He worked on his father's farm and attended the common schools until 1833, and in 1837 completed his education at the Canadaigua academy, in Ontario county. He taught school, and was admitted to the bar at Albany, N.Y., in 1845. He practised law in Penn Yan, N.Y., and was district attorney of Yates county, 1847-50. In 1859 he was a member of the state assembly, where he served as chairman of the judiciary committee. He was Republican rep- presentative from the twenty-fifth district of New York in the 38th and 39th congresses, 1863-67. He died at Penn Yan, N.Y., April 22, 1889.

MORRIS, Edward Dafydd, educator, was born in Utica, N.Y., Oct. 31, 1825 ; son of Dafydd Ed- ward and Anne (Lewis) Morris, immigrants from Wales. In early life he was employed as a clerk ; studied at Whitestown, N.Y., seminaiy, and was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1849, A.M., 1852, and from the Auburn Theological seminary in 1852. He was ordained by the presbytery of Cayuga in 1852 ; was pastor at Auburn, N.Y., 1852- 55, and of the second church at Columbus, Ohio, 1855-67 ; professor of church history at Lane Theological seminary, 1867-74 ; professor of systematic theology, 1874-97, and was made professor emeritus in 1897. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Hamilton col- lege in 1863, and that of LL.D. by Maryville col- lege, Tenn., in 1885. He was moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly, 1875, and filled other places of prominence in that denomination. He was twice married, first in 1852 to Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Dan and Fanny (Row^e) Parmelee of Fair Haven, Conn., and secondly in 1867 to Mary Bryan Treat of Tallmadge, Ohio. He is the author of : Outlines of Theology (1880) ; Ecclesiology (1885) ; Scripture Readings (1886) ; Salvation after Death (1887) ; and Theology of the Westminster Symbols (1900).

MORRIS, Edward Joy, representative, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 16, 1815. He matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1835, left in his freshman year, and was graduated from Harvard college in 1836. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and practised in Philadelphia. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1841-43 ; a Whig representative in the 28th congress, 1843-45, was charge d'affaires at Naples, Italy, 1850-54 ; a representative in the

35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61, and U.S. minister to Turkey by appointment of President Lincoln, 1861-70. He is the author of : Notes of a Tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Arabia Petroea to the Holy Land (1842) ; and translations from the German of Alfred De Besse's Tlie Turkish Em- pire, Social and Political (1854); Theodore Mug- ge's Afraja, or Life and Love in Norway (1854); and Ferdinand Gregorovius' Corsica, Picturesque, Historical and Social (1856). He died in Philadel- phia, Pa., Dec. 31, 1881.

MORRIS, Edward Parmelee, teacher, was born in Auburn, N.Y., Sept. 17, 1853 ; son of Ed- ward Dafydd and Frances Elizabeth (Parmelee) Morris. He attended the Woodward high school at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was graduated from Yale college, A. B., 1874. He was married in 1879 to Charlotte Webster Humphrey. He was professor at Drury college, Springfield, Mo., 1879-84 ; professor of Latin language and literature at Will- iams college, 1885-91, and became professor of Latin at Yale university in 1891. He vras made a member of the American Philological associa- tion in 1886. He is the editor of : The Mostellaria of Plautus (1880) ; The Pseudolus of Plautus (1890) ; and The Captives and Trinumvius of Plautus (1898), besides pamphlets on Plautus and Terence and various philological articles and re- views.

MORRIS, George Pope, journalist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 10, 1802. His early education was limited, and he obtained employ- ment in a printing office. He removed to New York city, where in 1817 he began to contribute articles to the New York Gazette and the Amer- ican. In 1823, with Samuel Woodworth. he es- tablished the New York Mirror, which was dis- continued in 1842 ; and in 1843, with Nathaniel P. Willis, who had been associated with him on the Mirror, he began the publication of the New Mirror, and in 1844, the Evening Mirror, a daily newspaper. He founded the National Press in December, 1845, which he changed to the Home Journal in November, 1846. He served in the state militia and attained the rank of brigadier- general. He is the author of : Briarcliff, a drama (1825) ; The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots (1839) ; the libretto of Charles E. Horn's "Maid of Saxony" (1842); edited American Melodies (1845) ; and, with Willis, the Prose and Poetry of America (1845). He was best known as a song writer, his principal songs being : Near the Lake Where Drooped the Willow ; We Were Boys Together ; Land ho ! Long Time Ago ; My Mother's Bible; Whip-poor-will; and Woodman, Spare tlmt Tree. He died in New York city, July 6, 1864.

MORRIS, Qeorge Sylvester, educator, was born in Norwich, Vt., Nov. 15, 1840 ; son of Syl-