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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MITCHELL MORTON.) 



teachers' institutes, summer schools, and Chau- 

 tauquas. He was author of Doctrines and Gen- 

 ' ius of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and 

 a contributor to periodicals. 



Mitchell, Henry, engineer, born in Nan- 

 tucket, Mass., Sept. 16, 1830; died in Boston, 

 Mass., Dec. 11, 1902. He was educated at the 

 Normal School in Bridgewater, Mass.; entered 

 the Government service as a civil engineer 

 in 1851; was assistant to the ^ commission- 

 ers on harbor encroachments of New York in 

 1859; led an expedition under Count de Lesseps 

 in connection with the Panama Canal scheme; 

 was consulting engineer of the United States 

 Commission on Boston harbor; was appointed 

 in 1874 to represent the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey on the Board of Engineers having in charge 

 the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi 

 river; and served on the Advisory Board of the 

 Harbor Commissions of Virginia and Rhode Is- 

 land in 1875-77. He was appointed Professor 

 of Physical Hydrography at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology in 1869, and to the 

 same chair in the Agassiz School of Science in 

 1873, but was unable to perform the duties. . He 

 was the author of articles on tides and tidal phe- 

 nomena, river currents, and other subjects con- 

 nected with physical hydrology. He also pub- 

 lished an elaborate defense of Count de Lesseps. 



Moore, Edward Mott, physician, born in Rah- 

 way, N. J., July 15, 1814; died in Rochester, 

 N. Y., March 3, 1902. His family removed to 

 Rochester, N. Y., in 1830. In 1838 he was grad- 

 uated at the medical department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, and began practise in 

 Rochester. In 1843 he was elected Professor of 

 Surgery in the Medical College at Woodstock, 

 Vt. From 1858 till 1883 he held the same chair 

 in Buffalo Medical College. He was the first 

 president of the New York State Board of 

 Health and at one time he was president of 

 the Medical Society of the State of New York. 

 He had also been president of the National Sur- 

 gical Association and of the National Medical As- 

 sociation. His investigations resulted in impor- 

 tant additions to the pathology of the heart, and 

 they were recorded in numerous medical papers. 

 For many years he was president of the Board of 

 Trustees of the University of Rochester. He also 

 organized the Rochester Public Health Association. 

 Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, soldier and edu- 

 cator, born in Franklin, Ind., Aug. 17, 1839; died 

 in Ossining, N. Y., July 13, 1902. He was the 

 son of the Hon. and Rev. Lewis Morgan, and was 

 educated at Franklin 

 College, which he left 

 in his senior year 

 (1861) to enlist in 

 the 7th Indiana Vol- 

 unteer Infantry, 

 where he served for 

 three months, and 

 then became superin- 

 tendent of schools in 

 Atlanta, 111. The 

 next year he entered 

 as a 1st lieutenant 

 the 70th Indiana Vol- 

 unteer Infantry, 

 which was command- 

 ed by Benjamin Har- 

 rison, afterward Pres- 

 ident, and served con- 

 tinuously till the close of the war in 1865, leav- 

 ing the army with the rank of brevet briga- 

 dier-general, bestowed " for gallant and meritori- 

 ous sen-ice during the war." He organized three 



regiments of colored infantry, and commanded 

 the first colored brigade of the Army of the Cum- 

 berland. He was for a time on the staff of Gen. 

 Oliver O. Howard, and distinguished himself in 

 the battle of Resaca; and again especially at the 

 battle of Nashville, where he commanded a divi- 

 sion. After the war he studied theology, being 

 graduated at Rochester Theological Seminary in 

 1868, and then for three years was corresponding 

 secretary of the New York Baptist Union for 

 Ministerial Education. He was pastor of a 

 church in Brownville, Neb., one year, and later 

 was principal, of the Nebraska State Normal 

 School. From 1874 to 1881 he was Professor of 

 Homiletics and Church History in Chicago The- 

 ological Seminary; after which he was principal 

 successively of the normal schools at Potsdam, 

 N. Y. (1881-'83), and Providence, R. I. (1884-89). 

 In July, 1889, he was appointed Commissioner of 

 Indian Affairs, which office he held through Pres- 

 ident Harrison's administration. In this office he 

 devoted his energies to the extension of the pub- 

 lic-school system ^o the Indian schools. Agreeing 

 with President Harrison in the fundamental doc- 

 trine of the absolute separation of Church and 

 state, he recommended that the cost of educating 

 the wards of the General Government be assumed 

 by that Government, and succeeded in breaking 

 up, with excellent results, the long-established 

 system of so-called contract schools. He also 

 placed the'schools and other departments of the 

 Indian service under the civil-service rules. 

 On retiring from that office in 1893, he became 

 corresponding secretary of the American Baptist 

 Home Mission Society, to which service he gave 

 the remaining nine years of his life. His work 

 here as chief executive officer was extended and 

 arduous along all lines. The extension of schools 

 for the colored people in the South and West 

 being one of the primary interests of the society, 

 Gen. Morgan's attainments as an educator, ad- 

 ministrator, and commander of colored troops 

 especially fitted him to increase and broaden the 

 efficiency of this branch of mission work. He 

 aimed at a middle course between misplaced 

 philanthropic efforts at too ambitious culture 

 and what he considered a too strictly industrial 

 training. He received the degrees of D. D. and 

 LL. D., and was a member of the Phi Beta 

 Kappa and a companion of the Loyal Legion. 

 He married in 1870 Caroline, daughter of 11 mi. 

 Frederick Starr, of Rochester, who survives him. 

 Gen. Morgan wrote frequently for the periodicals 

 of his denomination and the press at large; ed- 

 ited the Home Mission Monthly, the Students' 

 Hymnal, and the Praise Hymnal; and published 

 in book form Educational Mosaics (1887); Stud- 

 ies in Pedagogy (1888); Patriotic Citizenship 

 (1895); and The Negro in America (1900). 



Morton, Henry, physicist, born in New York 

 city, Dec. 11, 1836; died there, May 9, 1902. He 

 was the son of the Rev. Henry J. Morton, rector 

 of St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church in 

 Philadelphia, and was educated at the Univei>ity 

 of Pennsylvania, where, after graduation in 1 s.~>7 

 with the valedictory, he took a post-graduate 

 course in chemistry. He then turned his atten- 

 tion to law, but, having been invited to lecture 

 on chemistry and physics in the Episcopal Acnd- 

 emy of Philadelphia, he found that task so con- 

 genial that he soon relinquished his law studies. 

 In 1863 he was chosen Professor of Chemistry in 

 Philadelphia Dental College, and a year later he 

 became resident secretary of the Franklin ln<ti- 

 tute in Philadelphia, in connection with which 

 he began the delivery of a series of lectures on 

 light, sound, and similar topics, which were so 



