MORGAN
MORGAN
missioned brigadier-general at the request of
Gen. Robert E. Lee after the battle of Chancel-
lorsville, May 1-4, 1863, and given the command
of Rhodes's brigade. On reacliing Richmond and
hearing of the death of Colonel Webb of the 51st
Alabama cavalry, he declined the promotion and
returned to the command of the regiment. He
commanded the 1st brigade, Martin's division,
Wheeler's cavalry corps, at Cliickamauga, Sept.
19-20, 1863. He was promoted brigadier-general
a second time in November, 1863, placed in com-
mand of the 1st, 3d, 4th, 7th and 51st Alabama
cavalry, and commanded a division of Wlieeler's
cavalry at Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. He
was afterward engaged in the Atlanta cam-
paign under Generals Johnston and Hood in the
protection of the flank of the Confederate army,
and continued with Wheeler's cavalry on de-
tached service until the surrender of Johnston's
army. He resumed practice in Selma, Ala. , in
1865, and was a presidential elector on the Tilden
anil Hendricks ticket in 1876. He was elected to
the United States senate as a Democrat in 1876,
and was re-elected in 1882, 1888, 1894 and 1900.
While in the senate he served as chairman of the
committee on foreign aflfairs, 1893 ; was appointed
with Justice John M. Harlan arbitrator on the
Bering sea fisheries by President Harrison in
1892, and was one of the commissioners to organ-
ize the government in Hawaii after the passage of
the annexation bill by President McKinley in
July, 1898.
MORGAN, Junius Spencer, banker, was born at West Springfield, Mass., April 14, 1813 ; son of Joseph and Sally (Spencer) Morgan ; grandson of Samuel and Martha (Eells) Spencer. His parents removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1817, and Junius attended the public school, and was a cadet, 1825- 28, at Capt. Alden Partridge's milita-ry academy (now Norwich university), Vt. He was em- ployed as a clerk in a dry goods store in Hart- ford, and in the banking house of Morgan, Ketch- um & Co., of New York, 1834-36. He was a member of the governor's foot guards, 1838-41. He was junior partner of the firm of Howe, Mather & Co., dry goods merchants, Hartford, Conn., 1836-51, and then removed to Boston^ Mass., where with James M. Beebe he founded the dry goods establishment of J. M. Beebe, Morgan & Co. He visited England in 1853, and in 1854 severed his connection with the Boston firm to enter into partnership with George Pea- body & Co., bankers, in London. Mr. Peabody retired from the business in 1864, and the firm became J. S. Morgan & Co. While on a visit to the United States in 1877, Mr. Morgan was given a dinner in New York city in recognition of his action in upholding the foreign credit of Ameri- can institutions. He gave large sums of money
to charity and to educational institutions, includ-
ing §50,000 to Trinity college, and $25,000 to
the Orphan asylum, Hartford, in 1886, in memory
of his mother ; and subscribed $100,000 for a free
public library in Hartford on condition that a
building fund amounting to $400,000 should be
raised. He gave a large painting by Sir Joshua
Reynolds to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York city in 1887 ; a collection of early
editions of Virgil, valued at $50,000, to Princeton
university in 1896, and a complete series of
fac-similes of manuscripts in London, relating
to America from 1763 to 1783, to Yale uni-
versity. He left a fortune of nearly $10,000,000
at his death, and bequeathed large sums to
relatives, partners and servants. He was mar-
ried, May 2, 1836, to Juliet, daughter of the Rev.
John and Mary (Lord) Pierpont, of Boston, Mass.
He died in Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 8, 1890.
MORGAN, Lewis Henry, anthropologist, was born in Aurora, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1818; son of the Hon. Jedediah and Harriet (Steele) Smith Mor- gan ; grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Leeds) Morgan and of Lemuel Steele, and a descendant of James and Margery (Hill) Morgan, New Lon- don, Conn., 1650. He was graduated at Union college in 1840, was admitted to the bar, and set- tled in practice in Rochester, N.Y., in 1842. He was married, Aug. 13, 1851, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Lemuel Steele, of Albany, N. Y. He retired from practice in 1864 to devote himself to scientific pursuits. He was a member of the state assembly in 1861, and a state senator, 1868-70. He began to study the native Indian tribes, especially the Six Nations, in 1844, and joined the Grand Order of the Iroquois, a secret organiza- tion, which enabled him to make a special study of their civil and domestic relations. He was adopted by a tribe of Senecas, and while living with them examined and surveyed many of the traces of ancient Indian occupation in western New York. He urged the formation of a museum of Indian antiquities to illustrate the aboriginal era of American history by the University of the City of New York, in 1848, and contributed papers and aboriginal utensils and relics to the state museum. He made a study of the Ojibway In- dians while at Marquette, Mich., in 1858, and found that the society and government of this tribe was similar to the Iroquois. This induced him to continue his investigations, and with the aid of the Smithsonian Institution, agents of the department of state and others who became in- terested in the matter, he succeeded in recording the kinship systems of more than four-fifths of the world. The result of his researches was published by the Smithsonian Institution as •' Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family " (1869). He also wrote a second
