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church, 1883-95, and was consecrated missionary- bishop of Duluth, Feb. 2, 1897, by Bishops Doane, Huntington, Scarborough, Starkey, Walker, Gil- bert, Wells, Lawrence and Cheshire, and Hamilton of Ottawa. The honorary degree of D.D. was confer- red on him by Union college, N.Y., in 1879, and the degree of LL.D. after examina- tion, by McGill uni- versity in 1880. In 1898 he was appoint- ed Paddock lecturer to the General Theo- logical seminary. New York, and the lectures were pub- lished under the title " Fundamental Church Principles."

MORRISON, John Irwin, educationist, was born near Chambersburg, Pa., July 25, 1806; son of Robert and Ann (Irwin) Morrison. He re- moved to Washington county, Ind., in 1826, and was graduated from Miami university, Ohio, A.B., 1828, A.M., 1831. He was married, in 1882, to Catherine, daughter of Benoni and Rebecca (True- blood) ]\Iorris, who was a graduate of Westtown seminary. Pa., and who assisted him in building and establishing Salem Female institute at Salem, Ind., in 1835. He was a representative in the Indiana house of representatives. 1839-40; professor of languages in the Indiana State university, Bloomington, 1840-43 ; and state senator, 1847-50. As a delegate to the constitutional convention of Indiana, 1850-51, he was chairman of the committee on education, drafting the article on education, and was the author of the section creating the office of state superintendent of public instruction. He was treasurer of Washing- ton county, 1856-60 ; U.S. commissioner in the provost marshal's office, 1863-65, and state treas- urer, 1865-67. He removed in 1872 to Knights- town, Ind., where he was president of the school board, 1874-77. He was a trustee of Indiana university, 1846-49, 1850-55 and 1873-78, being president of the board during most of the time. He died at Knightstown, Ind., July 17, 1882.

MORRISON, Nathan Jackson, educator, was born in Franklin, N.H., Nov. 25, 1828 ; son of Nathan and Susannah (Chase) Morrison, and grandson of Bradbury and Anna (Sanborn) Morrison and of Jonathan and Lucy (Prescott) Chase. He was graduated from Dartmouth col- lege in 1853, and from Oberlin Theological sem- inary, 1854-57 ; was a tutor in Oberlin college, 1855-57 ; was ordained pastor of the Congrega-

tional church at Rochester, Mich., Feb. 11, 1858 ; w as professor of Greek and Lain a t Oliv et col- lege, 1 859-65 ; professor of men tal and moral philosophy and president of Olivet college 1865-72; organizer and presi- dent of Drury college, Spring- field, Mo., 1873-88 ; professor of philosophy at Marietta col- lege, 1888-95, and was the or- ganizer of Fairmont college, Wichita, Kan., and elected its first president in 1895. He was made a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1830. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Oberlin college in 1856, that of D.D. by Dartmouth col- lege in 1868, and LL.D. by the University of the State of Missouri in 1884. He was married July 8, 1863, to Miranda Capen, daughter of Isaac M. and Sarah (Capen) Dimond of Brooklyn, N.Y. His son, Theodore H. Morrison, LL.B., was appointed librarian of Fairmont college in 1898. He is the author of numerous addresses and sermons pub- lished in church periodicals.

MORRISON, Robert Francis, jurist, was born in Illinois, 1826. He served throughout the Mexi- can war as a non-commissioned officer in the regiment of his brother, Col. Don Morrison of St. Louis, and distinguished himself at Buena Vista. He removed to California in 1852, was admitted to the bar in Sacramento, and formed a partner- ship with J. Neely Johnson. He removed to San Francisco, where he practised law with James T. Boyd, and later returned to Sacramento, where he was district attorney of Sacramento county. He was again in San Francisco in partnership with Judge Delos Lake, and served as assistant U.S. attorney. In 1869 he was elected judge of the fourth district for the term of six years ; was re-elected in 1875 and resigned in 1879, having been elected chief-justice of the supreme court of California, which office he held until his death, in San Francisco, Cal., March 2, 1887.

MORRISON, Robert Hall, educator, was born in Cabarrus county, N.C., Sept. 8, 1798; son of William and Abigail (McEwan) Morrison, and grandson of Robert Morrison, who immigrated from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, about 1750, and settled first in Pennsylvania and -tjien in North Carolina. He was prepared for college at Rocky River academy and was graduated at the Univer- sity of North Carolina in 1818, sharing the first honors with James K. Polk. He was licensed by the Concord presbytery, Sept. 6, 1820 ; was or- dained, April 21, 1821, and was pastor at Provi- dence, 1821-22 ; at Fayetteville, 1822-27, where he also edited the Religioxis Telegraph, and at Sugar Creek and Charlotte, 1827-35. He helped to found Davidson college in 1835, raised $30,000 for