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its support, and was elected its first president, Nov. 9, 1836. He was inaugurated, March 1, 1837, and served as president and professor of sciences and mathematics, 1837-40, resigning July, 1840, on account of ill health. He was commissioner

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to the assembly at Philadelphia in 1821. In 1840 he returned to his farm *' Cottage Home," Lincoln county, N.C., where he was pastor of Unity and Macpelah churches for many years, and he served as a trustee of Davidson college, 1836-46, and 185S-74. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1822, and that of D. D. from the University of North Caro- lina in 1838. He married Mary, daughter of Gen. Joseph Graham and sister of the Hon. William A. Graham (q.v.) Of their children: Isabella married Gen. D. H. Hill ; Capt. William Wilber- force served in the Confederate army and died in 1865 ; Harriet married James P. Irwin of Char- lotte ; Mary Anna married Gen. Thomas J. ("Stonewall'') Jackson; Eugenia married Gen. Rufus Barringer ; Laura married Col. J. E. Brown of Charlotte ; Joseph Graham married Jennie Davis of Salisbury, N.C. ; Dr. Robert Hall married Lucy Reid of Iredell county, N.C. ; and the Rev. Alfred J. married Portia Lee, daughter of the Rev. Dr. J. M. P. Atkinson, president of Hampden Sidney college, Va. Dr. Morrison died at " Cot- tage Home," Lincoln county, N.C, May 13, 1889. MORRISON, Sarah Parke, educator, was born in Salem, Ind., Sept. 7, 1833 ; daughter of John Irwin (q.v.) and Catharine (Morris) Morrison, and granddaughter of Benoni and Rebecca (Trueblood) Morris. The Irwins came from Ire- land, the Truebloods from England, and the Morrises from Wales, 1650, settled in North Caro- lina, from whence her grandparents removed at a considerable sacrifice to the free state of Indiana. Benoni Morris was an early advocate of co-educa- tion, abolition and reform in general, and his daughter Catharine a worker in temperance, prison reform, peace, and woman's advancement. Sarah Parke Morrison attended the Salem semi- nary and the Indianapolis commercial college, and was graduated from Mt. Holyoke seminary, Mass., in 1857. She entered Indiana university in 1867, being the first woman admitted to that institution and on the same terms offered to men ; was grad- uated A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872, and engaged in

teaching and in literary, temperance and religious work. She was pupil-teacher at Vassar college *, an instructor at the first summer school for teachers at the State Normal school, Terre Haute, Ind. ; a tutor at the Indiana university, and ad- junct professor of English literature, 1873-75. She retired from public educational work in 1875, and devoted herself to study, writing and reform, serving as a minister in the Society of Friends.

MORRISON, Theodore Neven, third bishop of Iowa and 119th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Ottawa, III., Feb. 18, 1850 ; son of the Rev. Theodore Neven and Anna Eliza (Howland) Mor- rison ; grandson of John Huston and Isa- bella Work (Dickey) Morrison and of Dr. Allen Harrington Howland, and a de- scendant of John Howland, who mar- ried Elizabeth Till, adopted daughter of Governor Carver of the Mayflower. His great - grandfather Morrison came to ^~?^ J /7 ppi ' America in 1799. His ^^i^*r/^ ^//^^^'^

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clergyman in Illinois and one of the first gradu- ates of Jubilee college under Bishop Philander Chase. His parents removed to Jacksonville, III. , and he was graduated from Illinois college, Jack- sonville, in 1870, and from the General Theologi- cal seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, New York, in 1873. He was ordered deacon in Chicago, III., July 13, 1873 ; was a missionary at Pekin, III., where he erected and paid for a church at a cost of $13,000, 1873-76 ; was ordained a priest, Feb. 19, 1876, and was rector of the church of the Epiphany, Chicago, 1876-99. During his rectorship a new church was built in 1885 and he was for several years a member of the standing committee of the diocese of Chicago. He was married, Oct. 28, 1879, to Sarah Buck, daughter of the Rev. Arthur Swazey, D.D., of Chicago. He was elected bishop of Iowa, Nov. 80, 1898, as successor to the Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, deceased, and was consecrated. Feb. 22, 1899, in the church of the Epiphany, Chi- cago, by Bishops McLaren, Seymour, Walker, Nicholson, White, Millspaugh and Edsall. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Illinois college in 1896.

MORRISON, William Ralls, representative, was born in Monroe county. 111., Sept. 14, 1825 ; son of John and Anne (Ralls) Morrison, and grand- son of William Morrison, who came from Penn-