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1901). An authority on international law. Author: 

 "Reports on Extraterritorial Crime." 'Report on 

 Extradition," "Extradition and Interstate Rendition" 

 (two volumes), "American Notes on the Conflict of 

 Laws." "History and Digest of International Arbitra- 

 tions" (six volumes), "American Diplomacy, Its Spirit 

 and Achievements." One of the editors of "Political 

 Science Quarterly"; and of the "Journal du Droit 

 International Privfe." 



More, Sir Thomas, statesman and writer; born in 

 1478, son of Sir J. Mure, a judge; was educated in the 

 household of Archbishop Morton, who sent him to 

 Oxford, where he made the acquaintance of Erasmus. 

 He entered parliament in 1504, where he took an inde- 

 pendent course, refusing a pension from the king, whose 

 favor, however, and that of Wolsey, he enjoyed; \v:is 

 knighted in 1522, became speaker in 1~>23, and, on the 

 fall of Wolsey, chancellor, but resigned in 1532, and was 

 committed to the Tower two years later for refusing to 

 take the oath of supremacy. He was then condemned 

 by attainder, and executed on a charge of treason. 

 He wrote "Utopia" and several other works, most of 

 them in Latin. Died, 1535. 



Morgan, John Pierpont, banker, financier; born 

 in Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837; son of Junius Spencer 

 and Juliet (Pierpont) Morgan; graduate of English high 

 school, Boston; student of University of Gottingen, 

 Germany. Entered bank of Duncan, Sherman & Co., 

 1857; became agent and attorney in United States, 

 I860, for George Peabody & Co., bankers, London, in 

 which his father was partner; member of Dabney, 

 Morgan & Co., investment securities, 1864-71; be- 

 came member, 1871, of firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., 

 now J. P. Morgan & Co., leading private bankers of 

 United States; also has important branch house in 

 London. Largely occupied as financier in largest 

 reorganizations of railways and consolidation of in- 

 dustrial properties; floated United States bond issue 

 of $62,000,000 during Cleveland administration ; organ- 

 ized and floated securities of United States Steel Cor- 

 poration, 1901 (capital, $1,100.000,000); secured Ameri- 

 can subscriptions of $50,000,000 to British war loan of 

 April, 1901; organized existing agreement of anthracite 

 operators of Pennsylvania, also of soft coal interests in 

 Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania; controls over 50,000 

 miles of railways, large American and British ocean 

 transportation lines, and English traction railways. 

 Gave site, buildings, and funds, amounting to about 

 $1.500.000 to lying-in hospital, New York, and large 

 donations to the New York trade schools, the cathedral 

 of St. John the Divine, and many other institutions. 

 Has made valuable gifts to American Museum of Natural 

 History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New York 

 Public Library. Owns famous collections of pictures 

 (including famous Gainsborough painting), books, man- 

 uscripts, curios, etc. President or Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art; member of many societies, clubs, etc., in United 

 States and abroad. 



Morgan, John Tyler, United States senator from 

 Alabama. 1877-1907; born in Athens, Tenn., June 20, 

 1824; emigrated to Alabama when 9 years old; aca- 

 demic education; admitted to bar, 1845; practiced 

 until elected to the senate. Presidential elector, 1860; 

 delegate to Alabama secession convention, 1861; 

 joined Confederate States Army, May, 1861, as private; 

 promoted through all grades to colonel of 51st Alabama 

 Regiment, which he raised; was brigadier-general, 

 1863-65. After war, resumed practice at Selma, Ala.; 

 presidential elector, 1876; Democrat. Appointed by 

 President Harrison as arbitrator on Bering Sea fish- 

 eries, 1892; appointed by President McKinley, July, 

 1898, one of the commissioners to organize government 

 in Hawaii, after passage of annexation bill. Died, 1907. 



Morley, Right Hon. John, statesman and writer; 

 born in Blackburn in 1838, and educated at Cheltenham 

 and Oxford; was called to the bar in 1859, but devoted 

 his time to writing. He edited, among other publica- 

 tions, the "Fortnightly Review" from 1X<>7 n ixx2, 

 the "Pall Mall Gazette" from 1880 to 1883, and "Mac- 

 millan " in 1883-85, and after two unsuccessful candi- 

 datures (in 1869 and 1880) entered parliament in 1883, 

 as member for Newcastle. He, from the first, adopted 

 Home Rule, and, in 1886, became chief secretary for 

 Ireland, and again in 1892. His chief works are "Ed- 

 mund Burke: an Historical Study," "Voltaire." " Kons- 

 seau," "Diderot," "On Compromise," " Life of Cobden," 

 " Walpole," and "Chatham in the "Statesmen" series; 

 and he edited the "English Men of Letters" serifs. 



Morris, Clara, actress; born in Toronto, Canada, 

 in 1849; lived there until three months old, then went 

 to Cleveland and grew up there; became member of 

 ballet in Academy of Music, Cleveland, 1861, rapidly I 

 advancing to leading lady; in 1869, became leading j 



lady at Wood's Theater, Cincinnati; became member 

 Daly's Fifth Avenue Company, New York, 1870; soon 

 bivame prominent in emotional roles and has appeared 

 | as star in principal American theaters. Leading r61es: 

 Canulle, Alixe, Miss Multon, Mercy Merrick in "The 

 New Magdalene," Cora in " L' Article 47," etc.; married 

 in 1874, to Frederick C. Harriott. Contributor to "St. 

 Nicholas," "Century Magazine," "Pearson's," "Leslie's 

 Woman's Companion," "North American Review." 

 "Ladies' Home Journal," etc. Author: "A Silent 

 Singer." "My Little Jim Crow," "Life on the Stage," 

 "A Paste-Board Crown " (novel), "Stage Confidences," 

 "The Trouble Woman." 



Morris, (iouverneur, American statesman; born in 

 1752; became a member of the Provincial Congress of 

 New York, and was one of those who drew up the State 

 Constitution in 1776; was a prominent member of the 

 Continental Congress in 1777-80, being the colleague of 

 R. Morris as superintendent of finance. He was one of 

 the draughters of the Federal Constitution in 17X7, 

 after which he passed many years in Europe, being 

 minister to France during the Revolution, and became 

 United States senator on nis return. He wrote "Obser- 

 vations on the American Revolution," and his "Corre- 

 spondence" throws much light on the French Revolu- 

 tion. Died, 1816. 



Morris, Robert, American financier; born in Liver- 

 pool in 1734; emigrated at an early age and settled in 

 Philadelphia, becoming a partner in the counting-house 

 of C. Willing; opposed the Stamp Act, and signed the 

 Non-importation Agreement (1765). Having become a 

 member of the Continental Congress, he signed the 

 Declaration of Independence, and greatly helped the 

 American cause from his own purse, both during the 

 war and afterwards. He founded the Bank of North 

 America, was superintendent of finance from 1781 to 

 1784, but declined the secretaryship of the treasury; 

 was finally ruined by his speculations, and died in prison 

 for debt in 1806. 



Morris, William, English poet and socialist; born 

 in 1834, son of a London merchant; was educated at 

 Marlborough and Oxford, and, in 1863, with D. G. 

 Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and others, engaged in the 

 manufacture of artistic wall-paper and household 

 decorations. During his leisure hours he gave socialist 

 lectures, and wrote poetry, his chief productions having 

 been "The Life and Death of Jason," "The Earthly 

 Paradise," "The Story of Sigurd the Volsung," besides 

 translations of the "JEneid and the "Odyssey," and 

 some prose works, of which the chief is "A Tale of the 

 House of the Wolfings." Died, 1896. 



Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, born in 1791 ; Amer- 

 ican electrician; son of a Congrejiationalist minister in 

 Massachusetts; having graduated at Yale, went to Eng- 

 land in 1810, and, becoming a pupil of West, exhibited 

 "The Dying Hercules" at the academy in 1813. He 

 afterwards abandoned art for science, and, in 1837, took 

 out a patent for his electric telegraph, the first overhead 

 message being sent from Washington to Baltimore in 

 1844. It was afterwards generally adopted, the inventor 

 receiving an international testimonial in 1858. Disputes 

 subsequently arose as to priority of invention with Pro- 

 fessor Henry, and on account of the infringement of 

 Morse's patent. Died, 1872. 



Morton, Lev! Parsons, Vice-President of the I'nited 

 States, 18S9-93; born in Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824; 

 graduated from Shoreham Academy f LL. D., Dartmouth 

 College, 1891, Middlebury College, 1893); founded bank- 

 ing houses of L. P. Morton iV Company and Morton, Bliss 

 & Company, New York; Morton, Rose & Company, 

 Morton, Chaplin & Company, London, and Morton Trust 

 Company, New York; member Congress from New 

 York, 1879-81; United States minister to France, 1881- 

 85; vice-president of United States, 1889-93; governor 

 of New York, 1895-96. 



Motley, John Lothrop, an American historian, 

 born in Massachusetts in 1814, and graduated at Har- 

 vard College in 1831, after which he traveled for 

 some years in Europe. In 1840, he became secretary 

 of legislation at St. Petersburg; was minister-plenipo- 

 tentiary at Vienna from 1861 till 1867; and in 1869 

 was appointed American minister to the court of St. 

 James, a post from which he was removed in 1871. The 

 three great works upon which Motley has built up one 

 of the foremost literary reputations of the age, are "The 

 Rise of the Dutch Republic a History," its sequel, 

 "The History of the United Netherlands from the Death 

 of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort," and "John 

 ut Barneveld"; all of which have been translated into 

 the French, Dutch, and German languages. Died in 

 England in 1877. 



Moses, a great Hebrew prophet and legislator, and 

 son of Amram of the Levitical tribe, was born in Egypt, 



