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«ays signed " An American " in the Pennsylvania Packet (1780) ; and toward the close of his life he contributed political satires to the New York newspapers. His published works include : Ob- servations on the American Revolution (1779); An Address to the Assembly of Pennsylvania on the Abolition of the Bank of North America (1785) ; An Address in Celebration of the Delivery of Eu- rope from the Yoke of Military Despotism (1814) ; and funeral orations on Washington, Hamilton and Governor George Clinton. He died in Mor- risania, N.Y., Nov. 6, 1816.

MORRIS, Harrison Smith, editor and author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 4, 1856; son of George Washington and Catharine (Harris) Morris ; grandson of George Washington and Jane (Walters) Morris, and of Nicholas and Louisa (Shearer) Harris, and a descendant of Samuel and Thomas Harris, who settled on Long Island and removed thence to Salem, N.J. He attended the common schools ; obtained employ- ment in the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company in 1873 ; was promoted assistant cashier, and resigned in 1892. He was appointed managing director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1893 ; was editor of LippincotVs Magazine in 1899, and elected a member of the American Philosophical society in 1899. He was married, June 8, 1896, to Anna, daughter of Joseph Wharton. He edited : A Mosaic (1891) ; In the Yule Log Glow (1892) ; Wliere the Meadows Meet the Sea (1892), and Tales from Ten Poets (1893) ; and is the author of : Tales from Shake- speare, a continuation and completion of the work begun by Charles and Mary Lamb (1893) ; Madonna, and Other Poems (1894).

MORRIS, Henry W., naval officer, was born in New York city in 1806 ; son of Thomas Morris, a prominent lawyer of New York, and U.S. mar- shal for the southern district of tlie state, and grandson of Robert, the signer, and Mary (White)

Morris. He entered the U.S. navy, Aug. 21, 1819 ; was promoted lieutenant, and served in various posts, 1828-38, when he was sent on special duty to New York. In 1845 he was in command of the store-ship Southampton of the African squad- ron ; was awaiting orders at the New York navy yard, 1846-51 ; was promoted commander and had charge of the rendezvous in New York, 1851-53 ; commanded the sloop of war Oermantown, 1853- 56 ; was fleet captain under Commodore String-

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ham on the Mediterranean station, and was com- miasioned captain in 1856. During the civil war he superintended the construction of the steam- sloop-of-war Pensacola at the Washington navy yard, and in January, 1862, while in command of that vessel, he successfully passed the line of Con- federate batteries on the Potomac. He joined the expedition against New Orleans in 1862, partic- ipating in the attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and after the capture of New Orleans, guarded the city and the adjacent coasts until his health became broken and he returned to New York. He was promoted commodore, July 16, 1862. He died in New York city, Aug. 14, 1863.

MORRIS, Herbert William, author, was born in Wales, July 21, 1818. He studied theology in London, England, but was obliged, through an af- fection of the eyes, to abandon his studies. He came to the United States in 1842, and after re- covering his eye-sight was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Utica, N.Y., in 1846. He was pastor at Martinsburg, N.Y., 1847-50 ; Little Falls, N.Y., 1850-61 ; in Indiana, 1861-67, and at Roch- ester, -N.Y., 1867-77. In 1877 he retired from the ministry and devoted himself to literary pursuits. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Rochester in 1876. He is the author of: Science and tJie Bible (1870), which in a short period reached a sale of 50,000 copies ; Present Conflict of Science and Religion (1875); Testimony of the Ages to the Truth of Scripture (1880); The Celestial Symbol, or the Nat- ural Wonders and Spiritual Teaching of the Sun (1883); Natural Laws and Gospel Teachings (1887). He died in Rochester, N.Y., May 15, 1897.

MORRIS, Isaac Newton, representative, was born in Bethel, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1812 ; son of the Hon. Thomas and Rachel (Davis) Morris. He at- tended Miami university, Ohio ; was admitted to the bar in 1835, and began practice in Quincy, 111., in 1836. He was appointed secretary of state in 1840 by Governor Carlin but declined to serve, and in 1841 was chosen president of the Illinois and Michigan canal company. He was a repre- sentative in the Illinois legislature, 1846-48 ; a Democratic representative in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61, and opposed the admission of Kansas into the union under the Lecompton constitution. He was appointed a member of the Union Pacific railroad commission by President Grant, 1870. He died in Quincy, Oct. 29, 1879.

MORRIS, James Cheston, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 28, 1831; son of Dr. Caspar and Anne (Cheston) Morris ; grandson of Israel Wistar and Mary (HoUings worth) Morris, and a descendant through Capt. Samuel, Samuel and Anthony, Jr., of Anthony Morris, who came from London to the Jerseys in 1681, removed thence about the time of Penn's advent to Phila-