528 MORRISON, WILLIAM. 



MtJSSEY, REUBEN. 



Highness, the Princess Charlotte Augusta, and 

 after her marriage held the like office for her 

 husband, Prince Leopold, and subsequently for 

 the Duke of York. In 1827 he was made Presi- 

 dent of the Royal College of Physicians in Edin- 

 burgh, and in 1832 was appointed consulting 

 physician to the Middlesex Asylum at Hanwell, 

 and visiting physician to the Surrey County 

 Asylum. The following year he commenced a 

 course of lectures on mental diseases, in Lon- 

 don, which course he delivered for many suc- 

 cessive years. In 1835 he was appointed phy- 

 sician to the Royal Hospitals of Bethlehem and 

 Bridewell, and consulting physician to several 

 other asylums for the insane in different parts 

 of England. In this department he was thor- 

 oughly enthusiastic, devoting a great deal of 

 time and study to the improvement and man- 

 agement of the insane. After his retirement 

 from active practice he lived chiefly near 

 Balerno, in the parish of Currie. Sir Alexan- 

 der's published works are numerous ; among 

 the most important maybe mentioned, "The 

 Physiognomy of Mental Diseases," "Reports of 

 cases in Bethlehem Hospital," " Surrey Lunatic 

 Asylum," etc., etc., and a series of interesting 

 and valuable lectures on mental diseases. 



MORRISON, WILLIAM, a Canadian fur-trader, 

 interpreter, and explorer, born in Montreal, 0. 

 E., in 1 785 ; died on Morrison's Island, August 

 7, 1866. In 1802 he commenced his appren- 

 ticeship with the N. Y. Fur Company at Fond- 

 du-Lac, and was soon after admitted as a 

 partner. During the years 1803-'15, he ex- 

 plored the entire region of the Northwest, and 

 wintered at many important geographical points. 

 In 1816 he took charge of John J. Astor's busi- 

 ness, and remained with him until 1826, when 

 he retired and went to Canada. He has since 

 lived at Berthier. By an Indian wife he had 

 two sons the eldest of whom has passed a 

 great portion of his life among the wilds of 

 the Rocky Mountains, in Oregon, and Cali- 

 fornia, and accompanied Colonel Fremont in 

 his expedition. The other son is Register of 

 Deeds at Lake Superior. Mr. Morrison's life 

 has been an eventful one ; but that which most 

 of all will immortalize his name, is the fact of 

 his being the first white man who discovered 

 the sources of the Mississippi River. This honor 

 has generally been awarded to Mr. Schoolcraft, 

 but the justness of Mr. Morrison's claim is 

 without doubt. 



MORSE, Hon. ISAAC EDWARDS, an eminent 

 lawyer, formerly member of Congress from 

 New Orleans, born at Attakapas, Louisiana, 

 May 22, 1809 ; died in New Orleans, February 

 11, 1866. His early education was obtained in 

 New Orleans and Middletown, Conn., and sub- 

 sequently in the Military Academy at Norwich, 

 Vt. In the autumn of 1828 he entered the 

 senior class at Harvard College. Here he at 

 once arrested attention by his striking qualities 

 and his abounding humor. On leaving college 

 he carried with him the kind regards of all. 

 He engaged in the study of law at New Orleans, 



and afterward travelled in Europe. On his 

 return he soon emerged in political life, first as 

 a member of the State Senate, then in the Con- 

 gress of the United States, serving from 1843 to 

 1851. He was subsequently Attorney-General 

 of the State, and during the administration of 

 President Pierce was a minister to one of the 

 South American States. In all these stations, 

 as well as in his relations, professional, political, 

 and social, he discharged his duties with faith- 

 fulness and integrity. He followed the fortunes 

 of his State in her secession from the Union, 

 though the kindly instincts of his nature for- 

 bade the harboring of those bitter feelings 

 toward the North in which many of his sec- 

 tion indulged. 



MUNROE, Rev. NATHAN, a Congregational 

 clergyman and author, born in Minot (now Au- 

 burn), Me., March 16, 1804; died at Bradford, 

 Mass., July 8, 1866. His early studies were 

 prosecuted at Gorham, Maine, and in 1830 he 

 graduated at Bowdoin College, with the highest 

 honors of his class. He studied theology at 

 Andover, and was licensed to preach by Woburn 

 Association, April, 1834. For six months fol- 

 lowing, he occupied the post of Principal of 

 Delaware College with the highest acceptability. 

 But ill-health, that blight upon most of his after 

 labors, compelled him to retire from the insti- 

 tution, and from a career of study and attain- 

 ment for which he had given the highest promise. 



In 1836, he was ordained pastor of the First 

 church, Bradford, and for some years labored 

 with unusual ability and success. But failing 

 strength again slackened his pace, and finally 

 compelled him to resign his charge in May, 

 1853, after which he spent four or five years as 

 New-England Secretary of the American Sunday 

 School Union. From this position also he was 

 compelled by failure of health to retire; after 

 which his fine literary abilities were brought 

 into employ as one of the editors of the Boston 

 Recorder, and as the Boston correspondent of 

 The Evangelist. The last three years of his 

 life were employed in efforts for enlarging the 

 plans, the funds and influences of Bradford 

 Academy, and thus advancing the great work 

 of religions education. Mr. Munroe was a great 

 lover of books and had gathered a library of 

 more than six thousand volumes, many of them 

 of rare editions and value. 



MUSSEY, RETIBEN D., M. D., an eminent 

 American surgeon and author, born in Pelham, 

 N. H., in 1780; died in Boston, June 21, 1866. 

 He was the son of a country physician and 

 farmer, and assisted his father in his double 

 capacity until twenty-one years of age. In 

 1803, he graduated at Dartmouth College, and 

 in 1809, having received the degree of M. D. 

 from the University Medical School of Philadel- 

 pftia, he went to Salem, Mass., and practised 

 lite profession successfully till 1814. He then 

 accepted the position of professor of the theory 

 and practice of physic at Dartmouth, retaining 

 it till 1819, when he was transferred to the 

 professorship of anatomy and surgery- The 



