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MORIN 



J. P. MORGAN 

 Present head of the power- 

 ful banking firm established 

 by his father. 



became a stockholder and director in many 

 large corporations. At his father's death he 

 inherited most of the estate and filled numer- 

 ous positions that had been occupied by J. P. 

 Morgan senior. 

 In 1914 he was 

 made the official 

 British repre- 

 sentative for plac- 

 ing contracts in 

 the United States 

 for the manufac- 

 ture of munitions 

 during the War 

 of the Nations. 

 In 1915 he or- 

 ganized a syndi- 

 cate to float a 

 loan of $500,000,000 to England and France. 



MORGAN, JOHN TYLER (1824-1907), an 

 American lawyer and statesman of the South, 

 notable for his services as tlnited States Sena- 

 tor from Alabama for thirty years. During his 

 Senatorship he was recognized as one of the 

 ablest of Democratic leaders, and for some 

 years was chairman of the Senate committee of 

 foreign relations. He was also chairman of the 

 commission on interoceanic canals, a member 

 of the board of arbitration concerning the Be- 

 ring Sea fisheries, and one of the commission 

 appointed by President McKinley to organize a 

 government for the Hawaiian Islands. He was 

 renowned for his speeches made in behalf of 

 Cuban independence. 



Although a native of Athens, Tenn., Morgan 

 received most of his education in Alabama and 

 began the practice of law at Talladega in 1845. 

 He served as a member of the state convention 

 that passed the Ordinance of Secession in 1861. 

 Joining the Confederate army as a private, he 

 was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. 

 After the war he resumed the practice of law 

 at Selma, and after serving twice as Presidential 

 elector was elected to the Senate for five suc- 

 cessive terms. 



MORGANATIC, morganat'ik, MARRIAGE. 

 See subhead, in article MARRIAGE. 



MORGANTOWN, W. VA., the county seat of 

 Monongalia County, situated on the Monon- 

 gahela River, near the northwest state bound- 

 ary line. It is on the Baltimore & Ohio and 

 the Morgantown & Kingwood railroads, and is 

 fifty miles southeast of Wheeling, sixty miles 

 south of Pittsburgh and about 100 miles by rail 

 from both cities. River commerce extends to 

 Fairview, twenty-six miles southwest of Mor- 



gantown. The area of the city is three square 

 miles. The population, which in 1910 was 9,150, 

 was 13,709 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 



Morgantown is the seat of the University of 

 West Virginia (which see), with an attendance 

 of 1,700 students, and besides the noteworthy 

 buildings of the campus, which include a fine li- 

 brary, armory and mechanical hall, the city has 

 a Federal building, completed in 1915 at a cost 

 of nearly $100,000, and a number of attractive 

 churches. Cheat River, a few miles distant, is 

 a stream of much scenic beauty. The city has 

 valuable natural resources consisting of timber, 

 natural gas, coal, iron, limestone, clay and glass 

 sand; and it manufactures sheet and tin plate, 

 window glass, pressed prism glass, wire glass 

 and mirrors. 



A settlement made here in 1768 by David and 

 Zackwill Morgan was named in honor of the 

 latter, incorporated in 1785 as Morgan's Town, 

 and became a city in 1905. J.A.P. 



MORIN, moraN', AUGUSTE NORBERT (1803- 

 1865), a Canadian jurist and statesman, for a 

 quarter of a century one of the most conspicu- 

 ous Liberals of Quebec, twice Premier of Canada 

 under the Union Act of 1841. Morin was born 

 at Saint Michel, Que., received his schooling at 

 the Quebec Seminary, then studied law, and in 

 1828 was called to the bar. Two years later he 

 was elected to the Quebec assembly, in which 

 his talents won immediate recognition, so that 

 in 1834, when commissioners were sent to Lon- 

 don to inform the British government of politi- 

 cal conditions in Canada, Morin was chosen one 

 of the commissioners. 



After the Union of Upper and Lower Canada, 

 he was elected to the Canadian assembly. He 

 became a prominent follower of Lafontaine and 

 Baldwin, in whose first Ministry he was com- 

 missioner of crownlands (1842-1843). Reflected 

 to the assembly in 1844, he served as a private 

 member until 1848, and as speaker from 1848 to 

 1851. Throughout the long struggle for respon- 

 sible government, Morin labored faithfully for 

 reform. His high standards, his ability and his 

 experience gave him a respected position among 

 Canadian public men, and on the retirement of 

 Sir Louis Lafontaine Morin was chosen to suc- 

 ceed him as leader of the Lower Canada Lib- 

 erals. He joined with Sir Francis Hincks in 

 1851 to form a Ministry, which held office until 

 1854, when it was defeated because of the delay 

 in disposing of the questions of clergy reserves 

 and seigniorial tenures. Morin resigned, but so 

 strong still was his influence that he was able 

 to form a coalition Ministry, the MacNab- 



