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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MORRISON NEWTON.) 



"The Unitarian Review,'' and had published a 

 "Life of Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. I) " (ISoston, 

 1845); " Disquisitions and Notes on the Gospel of 

 St. Matthew" (1860): and "The Great Poets as 

 Religious Teachers" (Xew York, 1885). 



Morrison, David, manufacturer, born in Glas- 

 gow, Scotland, Jan. 23, 1N2:>: died in New York 

 city, Feb. 25, 1896. lie removed to New York in 

 1842, and was engaged in the manufacture of brass 

 goods till the beginning of the civil war. He had 

 been connected with the 79th Highlanders from its 

 organization, and when the regiment volunteered 

 its services to the Government he closed his factory 

 and accompanied it to the front. During the war 

 he commanded the regiment, a brigade, a division, 

 and nine army corps, and was wounded several 

 times. In all his commands he kept his own regi- 

 ment with him. At one time he had under him, 

 besides the Highlanders, the 36th Massachusetts, 

 the Slli. 17th. 20th, and 27th Michigan, and the 

 40th, 45th, 50th, and 100th Pennsylvania Regiments. 

 At the close of the war he resumed manufacturing 

 in his former factory. 



Morse, Cyrus Billiard, inventor, born in West 

 Boylston, Mass., July 8, 1819; died in Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., Feb. 22, 1896. He followed the profession 

 of mechanical engineering for many years, and pat- 

 ented devices for wood-working machinery, cotton- 

 spinning and wool-carding machinery, casting hol- 

 low-steel ingots, and drawing tubing. 



Mott. Henry Augustus, chemist, born in Clifton, 

 Staten Island, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1852; died in New 

 York city, Nov. 8, 1896. He was a grandson of 

 Valentine Mott, Sr., the'distinguished surgeon, and 

 was graduated at the Columbia College School of 

 Mines in 1873. Two years afterward Columbia 

 gave him the degree of Ph.D. After graduation 

 he made a specialty of technical chemistry, and it 

 has been claimed that by an original process he 

 made the manufacture of artificial butter commer- 

 cially successful. While acting as consulting chem- 

 ist to several manufactories of food preparations 

 he made a memorable exposure of the adulteration 

 of baking powders with alum. For three years he 

 was employed by the United States Government as 

 chemist and examiner of the food purchased for 

 the Indian Bureau, and he was frequently engaged 

 in court proceedings as an expert witness, the most 

 notable being the Fleming murder trial and the 

 Shakespeare case, testifying for the defense in the 

 latter trial, under instructions from the French 

 Government. Dr. Mott was Professor of Chemistry 

 in the New York Medical College and Hospital for 

 Women in 1881-'86 and the official chemist of the 

 Medico-Legal Society. During the past six years 

 he had delivered an annual course of free lectures 

 on chemistry in the public schools of New York. 

 At the time of his death he was interested in devel- 

 oping a new motive power for steamships which he 

 had invented. He was a frequent contributor to 

 scientific periodicals, and published. " The Chemist's 

 Manual " (New York, 1878) ; "Was Man created 1" 

 (1880); "The Air we breathe and Ventilation" 

 (1881); "The Fallacy of the Present Theory of 

 Sound " (1885) ; " Matter. Ether, and Energy " ; 

 and " Yachts and Yachtsmen of America." 



Munro,tleorge, publisher. born in Pictou County, 

 Nova Scotia, Nov. 12, 1825 ; died in Pine Hill, N. Y.. 

 April 23, 1896. He received the best education the 

 province afforded, and from 1850 to 1856 was in- 

 structor in mathematics in the Free Church College, 

 Halifax, completing a theological course in the 

 meantime. In 1856 he removed to New York city. 

 and for several years was employed by the American 

 News Company. After a preliminary venture with 

 a series of cheap novels he established, in 1867. 

 " The Fireside Companion," and in 1877 a series of 



reprints of popular English novels issued weekly 

 under the title of "The Seaside Library." Both 

 publications reached a large circulation, and made 

 Mr. Munro wealthy. He endowed professorships of 

 physics, literature, philosophy, history, and consti- 

 tutional law in Dalhousie College, Halifax, and 

 made gifts to that institution aggregating nearly 

 $500,000. He also gave liberally to the University 

 of the City of New York, of whose council he was a 

 member at the time of his death. 



Murray, Eli Houston, military officer, born in 

 Cloverport, Ky., Feb. 10, 1843; died in Bowling 

 Green, Ky., Nov. 18. 1896. Soon after the attack on 

 Fort Sumter he left school and organized a com- 

 pany of the 3d Kentucky Union. Cavalry, of which 

 he was commissioned major. On the death of Col. 

 James Jackson, he was promoted colonel of the 

 regiment, with which he served till the close of the 

 war, receiving the brevet of brigadier general of 

 volunteers in 1865, after having commanded a bri- 

 gade in Sherman's march to the sea. He was United 

 States marshal for Kentucky in 1866- ? 16; practiced 

 law till 1879, when he purchased a controlling in- 

 terest in the Louisville " Daily Commercial "; was 

 appointed Governor of Utah Territory in 1880, was 

 rcappointed in 1884, and resigned before the end of 

 his second term. He administered the office of 

 Governor with a firm hand, and with an unrelent- 

 ing opposition to polygamy. 



Newton, Hubert Anson, astronomer and mathe- 

 matician, born in Sherburne, N. Y., March 19, 1830; 

 died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 30, 1896. His 

 father, William Newton, built the Buffalo section 

 of the Erie Canal, and his mother, Lois Butler, had 

 some local reputation for her mathematical powers. 

 He was graduated at Yale 

 in 1850, winning the first 

 mathematical prize. He 

 then studied the higher 

 mathematics for two years 

 and a half, and in 1853 be- 

 came a tutor at Yale, where 

 he took full charge of the 

 mathematical department 

 during the illness of the 

 Professor of Mathematics, 

 and in 1855 was given the 

 full professorship. It is said 

 that he was the youngest 

 graduate of the college that 

 was ever thus honored by 

 the corporation. After a 



year's study abroad he entered on the duties of his 

 chair, which he discharged till his death. His sci- 

 entific work includes investigation in both pure 

 mathematics and its application to astronomy. lie 

 is best known for his discoveries and researches 

 regarding the laws of meteoroids and comets and 

 their connection, which made his reputation among 

 scientific men throughout the civilized world. In 

 this field he was -perhaps the highest living author- 

 ity. He was practically the first to enter it. In 

 1833 Prof. Olmsted, his colleague, having witnessed 

 the remarkable meteoric shower of that year, sug- 

 gested the hypothesis that the meteors were part of 

 a stream of bodies moving around the sun in a fixed 

 orbit. Prof. Newton devoted the best part of his 

 life to developing this theory ; and the sum of mod- 

 ern knowledge on the subject, which is both exten- 

 sive and accurate, is chiefly due to him, either di- 

 rectly or through the stimulus that his enthusiasm 

 gave to other workers in the field, both in this 

 country and abroad. His first important result 

 was the mathematical computation of five orbits, that 

 agreed with the observations of the November me- 

 teors, and the determination of the one of these 

 that corresponded with their actual path. He thus 



