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delphia, and whose brew house is represented on a map of thecity in 1703. He was a Quaker min- ister and ijrominent in public affairs. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1851, A.M. and M.D., 1854; practised medicine in Philadelphia ; was physician to the Foster home for children, 1856-60 ; to the Moya- mensing house of industry, 1855-59, and to the hospital of the P. E. church, 1857-72. He served as acting assistant-surgeon in the U.S. army, 1862-63, in the army hospitals in Philadelphia and at Gettysburg. He was an examiner and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, 1855-63 ; was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1854, of the Franklin Institute in 1870, of the American Phi- losophical society in 1883, of various medical as- sociations, of the American Public Health asso- ciation, and of the Pennsylvania Horticultural society. He was twice married : first in 1854 to Hannah Ann, daughter of Isaac Tyson, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., who died in 1867 ; and secondly in 1870 to Mary E. Stuart, daughter of Laurence Johnson of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of a translation from the German of Prof. C. G. Lehmann's Manual of Chemical Physiology (1856); and of Tlie Milk Supply of Large Cities (1884); The Water Supply of Philadelphia ; Annals of Hygiene ; Report of the Philadelphia Water Department, and many articles on sanitary, bio- logical, medical and literary subjects.

MORRIS, James Walter, educator, was born in Carter county, Mo., Dec. 31, 1858 ; son of Cal- houn R. and Martha L. (Carleton) Morris ; grand- son of Erving and Cynthia (Reid) Morris of Vir- ginia and of William Carleton of Kentucky. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1881 ; was mar- ried in 1884 to Helen Wheeler ; prepared for col- lege at Carleton institute ; was graduated at Mc- Kendree college in 1888 ; took a post graduate course there and at Boston university ; was prin- cipal of an academy in California, 1895-96, and received the degree of Ph. D. from Taylor uni- versity, Ind., in 1900. In May, 1901, he was elected president of Montana Wesleyan university, Helena, Mont. He is the author of Epworth League Manual of Methodist Doctrines (1893).

MORRIS, John Gottlieb, clergyman and author, was born in York, Pa., Nov. 14, 1803. His father was a surgeon in the Continental army during the American Revolution. John attended the College of New Jersey, Princeton, where he was awarded a prize for oratory ; was graduated from Dickinson college, A.B., 1823, A.M., 1826 ; from Princeton Theological seminary, 1826, and from the Evangelical Lutheran Theological semi- nary, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1827. He was ordained, Oct. 15, 1827, at Baltimore, Md., and was pastor

of the First Lutheran church at Baltimore, 1827- 60. He was an intimate friend of George Pea- body, a trustee of the Peabody Institute and its librarian in 1860. He was pastor of the Third Lutheran church, Baltimore, 1864-73, and of the Lutheran church at Lutherville, Md., 1875-85. In 1853, with his brother, he founded the Luther- ville Ladies' seminary. He was a lecturer on natural history at Pennsylvania college in 1834 and on pulpit eloquence at the Evangelical Luth- eran Theological seminary in 1874, besides deliv- ering numerous lectures at the Smithsonian In- stitution, Washington. He was secretary of the General synod in 1839, president in 1843 and 1883 ; president of the First Lutheran church Diet, held at Philadelphia in 1877 ; a trustee of Pennsylvania college, and a director of the Evangelical Lutheran Theological seminary for many years. He was a member of many scienti- fic societies ; chairman of the entomological sec- tion of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science ; president of the Maryland Bible society, and of the Maryland Historical society. He traveled in Europe in 1846, and while in England aided in the establishment of the Evangelical Alliance at London. He founded the Academy of Lutheran Church History, and was its first and only president. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Penn- sylvania college in 1839, and that of LL.D. by the same college in 1873. He is the author of: Catechumen's and CommunicanVs Companion (1831); Henry and Antonio (1831); Catechetical Exercises on Luther^ s Catechism (IS^^)-, lectures on Oeology (1839); Popular Exposition of the Gos- pels (2 vols., 1840); Life of John Amdt (1853); To Rome and Back Again (1853); Life of Martin Behaim (1856); Life of Katharine de Bora (1856); The Blind Girl of Wittenberg (1856); Quaint Sayings and Doings concerning Luther (1859); Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of North America (1860) ; Synopsis of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of the United States (1862) ; TJie Lords Baltimore (1874); Bibliotheca Lutherana (1876); Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry (1878); A Day in Caper- naum (1879); 77ie Diet of Augsburg (1879); Augs- burg Confession and the Thirty-nine Articles (1879); Journeys of Luther (1880); Luther at Walburg and Coburg (1882); Life of Luther (1883) ; Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord's Supper (1884); Memoirs of the Stork Family (1884). He died in Lutherville, Md., Oct. 10, 1895.

MORRIS, Lewis, statesman, was born in New York city in 1671 ; son of Richard and Sarah (Cole) Morris. Richard Morris an officer in Cromwell's army, immigrated to the West Indies and subsequently to New York, and in 1650 purchased from the Indians a tract of 3000 acres near Harlem, which became known as Mor-