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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MOREY NOBLE.) 



the geographical text-books, and began a series of 

 special studies with the intention of compiling a 

 standard geography. His skill as a draughtsman 

 enabled him to prepare the maps and illustrations to 

 accompany the descriptive text. In 1861 he sub- 

 mitted to the publishing house of A. S. Barnes & Co. 

 the material for his first geogftphical publication, and 

 this firm promptly brought it out. The preparation 

 of this work had compelled him to resign his appoint- 

 ment as teacher, and after its publication he applied 

 himself wholly to the compilation of geographical and 

 historical works. His publications include a " His- 

 tory of the United States," series of school geogra- 

 phies, treatises on map-drawing, pictorial charts of 

 geography, large school maps, and Biblical maps of 

 Canaan, ralestine, and the travels of St. Paul. 



Morey, Frank, planter, born in Boston, Mass., July 

 11, 1840; died in Washington, D. C., Sept. 22, 1890. 

 He received a public-school education, removed to 

 Illinois in 1857, and engaged in agricultural and mer- 

 cantile pursuits and studied law. He joined the 33d 

 Illinois Infantry in 1861, and served till the close of 

 the war, chieliy on staff duty. Settling in Louisiana 

 in 1866, he engaged in cotton planting and the insur- 

 ance business. In 1868-' 69 he was a member of the 

 Legislature ; subsequently was appointed a commis- 

 sioner to revise the statutes and codes of the State ; 

 and in 1868, 1870, 1S72 ; and 1874 was elected to Con- 

 gress from the 5th Louisiana District as a Republican. 

 In the last election the returning board certified to his 

 election, and he held the seat till May 31, 1876, when 

 the House of Representatives formally declared that 

 William B. Spencer, his Democratic opponent, had 

 been elected, and the latter was sworn in on June 8. 



Morgan, Jnnins Spencer, banker, born in West Spring- 

 field (now Holyoke), Mass., April 14, 1813: died in 

 Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 8, 1890. He removed to 

 Hartford, Conn., when 

 a boy, worked in a dry- 

 goods store till he be- 

 came of age, spent eight- 

 een months in a bank 

 ing house, then became 

 junior partner in a large 

 dry -goods house, and in 

 1851 established the 

 dry - goods house of 

 Beebe, Morgan & Co. in 

 Boston, which became 

 one of the largest in the 

 United States! In 1853 

 he went to London on 

 business for his firm, 

 and becoming acquaint- 

 ed with George Pea- 

 body, was offered a part- 

 nership in the banking house of George Peabody & 

 Co., which he accepted in the following year. *0n 

 the retirement of Mr. Peabody, in 1864, Mr. Morgan 

 became head of the firm, and changed the name to 

 J. S. Morgan & Co. He remained abroad till 1877, 

 when, on' a visit to the United States, he was 'given 

 a dinner in New York city, at which many millions 

 of dollars were represented and Samuel J. Tilden 

 presided. He was eulogized for the influential part 

 he had borne as a financier in upholding the foreign 

 credit of American institutions. In life he gave 

 $50,000 to Trinity College, Hartford, and $25,000 to 

 the Hartford Orphan Asylum, and subscribed $100,- 

 000 for the establishment of a free public library in 

 Hartford, which sum, in addition to $50,000 sub- 

 scribed by his son, John Pierpont Morgan, was con- 

 ditional on the raising of a building fund of $400,000. 

 He also gave a large and valuable painting, by Sir 

 Joshua Reynolds, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 

 in New York city, and a complete series ol' fac-similes 

 of manuscripts in London relating to America in 

 1763-'83 to Yale University and the Connecticut His- 

 torical Society. He left a personal estate sworn at 

 $9,827,192, and bequeathed large sums to his relatives, 

 partners, clerks, and servants. 



Morgan, Matthew Somerville, artist, born in London, 

 England, April 27, 1839 ; died in New York city, 

 June 2, 1890. He was a son of Matthew Morgan, an 

 actor and music teacher, and of Mary Somerville, an 

 actress and singer. He studied scene painting, fol- 

 lowed it for several years at the Princess Theatre. 

 London, and abandoned it to become an artist and 

 correspondent for the " London Illustrated News." 

 Subsequently he studied art in Paris, Italy, and Spain, 

 and in 1858 penetrated to the interior of Africa by 

 way of French Algeria. In the following year he 

 was art correspondent, for the '^Illustrated 'News " 

 during the Austro-Italian war. He afterward be- 

 came artist, joint-editor, and proprietor of the " Toma- 

 hawk," a comic illustrated paper, for which he drew 

 a series of notable cartoons, and also a founder of 

 London "Fun." In 1867-'69 he was principal scene 

 painter at Covent Garden Theatre, and 1870 came to 

 the United States under an engagement with Frank 

 Leslie as caricature artist for his ''Illustrated News- 

 paper." He was engaged in theatrical lithography 

 in Cincinnati in 1880-'85, and while in that city 

 founded an art pottery company and the Art Students' 

 League. In 1887 he returned to New York city, and 

 was there employed till his death in scene painting 

 and in drawing for periodicals. He had painted altar 

 pieces for Roman Catholic churches ; a large picture 

 in oil, " Christ entering Jerusalem," which was ex- 

 hibited in the principal cities ; a series of panoramic 

 battle scenes in the civil war ; several water colors 

 for the exhibitions of the Water-Color Society ; and 

 at the time of his death was completing the scenery 

 for the new Madison Square Garden, New York. 



Nevin, Alfred, clergyman, born in Shippensburg, 

 Pa., March 14, 1816; died m Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 2, 

 1890. He was graduated at Jefferson College in 1834, 

 and was admitted to the bar at Carlisle, Pa., in 1837 ; 

 but studied theology and was graduated at the 

 Western Theological Seminary in 1840. The same 

 year he became pastor of Cedar Grove Presbyterian 

 Church, Lancaster County, Pa. He remained there 

 five years ; held pastorates in Chambcrsburg seven 

 years, and in Lancaster city five years, and organized 

 and was pastor of the Alexander Church in Philadel- 

 phia from 1857 till 1861. In 1861 he founded and 

 became editor of "The Standard," which, on his re- 

 linquishing it in 1866, was merged into "The North- 

 western Presbyterian" of Chicago. From 1872 till 

 1774 he edited " The Presbyterian Weekly," from 

 1875 till 1880 he was chief editor of the " Presbyterian 

 Journal " and from 1878 till 1880 he was a lecturer 

 in the National School of Oratory in Philadelphia. 

 He was a founder of the Presbyterian Historical So- 

 ciety, member of the Presbyterian Board of Publica- 

 tion, trustee of Lafayette College, moderator of the 

 Synod of Philadelphia in 1856,'several times a com- 

 missioner to the General Assembly, and its representa- 

 tive in other denominational bodies. He received 

 the degrees of D. D. from Lafayette College and 

 LL. D. from the Western University of Pennsylvania. 

 Dr. Nevin was author of many works, including: 

 "Christian's Rest" (Lancaster, 1843); "Spiritual 

 Progression" (Chambersburg, 1848); "Churches of 

 the ^Valley" (Philadelphia, 1852); "Guide to the 

 Oracles" (Lancaster, 1857); "Words of Comfort" 

 (New York, 1867); " The Age Question; a Plea for 

 Christian Union" (Philadelphia, 1868); "Popular 

 Expositor of the Gospels and Acts" (4 vols., Phila- 

 delphia, 1872) ; " The Voice of God (1873) ; " The 

 Sabbath-School Help" (1873); Notes on Exodus" 

 (1873); "Notes on the Shorter Catechism" (1878); 

 " Prayer-Meeting Manual " (1880) ; " Glimpses of the 

 Coming World " (1880) ; " Parables of Jesus " (1881) ; 

 " Encyclopaedia of the Presbyterian Church in the 

 United States of America" (1884) ; " Folded Leaves" 

 and " Twelve Revival Sermons " (1885) ; and " Pres- 

 byterian Year-Book for 1887-' 88." 



.Noble, Butler Gilbert, lawyer, born in Geneva, N. Y., 

 in 1816 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1890. He 

 received a common-school education, studied law, 

 and was admitted to the bar. He removed to Wis- 



