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employer was so pleased with his aptitude for 

 business that he established him in a branch 

 store in Hanover, X. H. (the seat of Dartmouth 

 College), giving the young proprietor an inter- 

 est in the business. He soon became a favor- 

 ite with the students, and remained there six 

 years, and then went to Boston, where, in 

 1349, he entered the house of James M. Beebe 



of L. P. Morton & Co., one member of which 

 was Charles W. McCune, afterward of the Buf- 

 falo " Courier." In 18G3 Mr. McCune withdrew, 

 while the remaining partners established the 

 banking-house of L. P. Morton & Co., at No. 35 

 Wall Street. A London branch was soon estab- 

 lished under the title, L. P. Morton, Burns & 

 Co., but in 1869 that firm was dissolved, Sir 



LEVI PARSONS MORTON. 



& Co. Two years later, the firm made him a 

 partner, opened a branch in New York known 

 as J. M. Beebe, Morgan & Co., and placed him 

 in it. In 1854 Mr. Morgan (father of Pierpont 

 Morgan, of Morgan, Drexel & Co.) went to 

 London, and Mr. Morton soon afterward or- 

 ganized the firm of Morton & Grinnell, which 

 continued in business until the beginning of 

 the civil war. In 1856 Mr. Morton had mar- 

 ried Miss Lucy Kim ball, daughter of Elijah H. 

 Kimball, of Flatlands. Long Island. Late in 

 1861 Mr. Morton founded the mercantile firm 

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John Rose, Finance Minister of Canada, be- 

 coming Mr. Morton's partner in London, under 

 der the firm-name of Morton. Rose & Co. At 

 the same time George Bliss entered the Nesv 

 York firm. At home the house of Morton, 

 Bliss & Co. rendered material aid to the Gov- 

 ernment; and abroad. Morton, Rose & Co. be- 

 came the fiscal agents of the United States. 

 and were active in the negotiations that end- 

 ed in the Geneva and Halifax fisheries awards. 

 In 1876 Mr. Morton was nominated for Con- 

 gress by the Republicans of the Eleventh New 



