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MORRIS MORRIS was married in 1852 to Haunali, daughter of Henry F. Rodney, of Lewes, Del. ; was rector of St. David's church, Manayunk, Pa., 1851-57, and of St. Luke's church, Germantown, Pa., 1857-68. He was elected missionary bishop of Oregon and VVjishington territories in 1868, as successor to the Rt. Rev. Thomas Fielding Scott, deceased, and was consecrated Dec. 3, 1868, by Bishops Lee, Odenheimer, Vail, Clarkson, Randall and Kerfoot. When his jurisdiction was divided into two sees in 1880 he remained in charge of the missionary district of Oregon, which in 1889 was organized as a diocese. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Columbia college in 1868 and by tlie University of Pennsylvania in 1869. He is the author of : Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist Testimony to Confirtnation and of contributions to clmrch periodicals. MORRIS, Cadwalader, financier, was born in Philadelpliia, Ph., April 19, 1741 ; son of Sam- uel (1711-1782) and Hannah (Cadwalader) Morris, and brother of Samuel Cadwalader Morris (1743-1820). His father, a member of the committee of safety during the Revolu- tionary war and register of wills in Philadel- phia, 1777-82, died in 1782. Cadwalader was a member of the city troop commanded by his cousin, Capt. Samuel Morris (1734-1812), as Wash- ington's body-guard. Upon the organization of the Pennsylvania Bank, June 8, 1780, he assisted in its establishment by a subscription of £2,500 to its capital, his father having subscribed £3,000. The institution was organized for the purpose of " supplying and transporting food to the army." He was a founder and elected a director of the Bank of North America in November, 1781, and served till April 25, 1787, subscribing for one share of stock for himself and three for his mother, Hannah Morris. He removed to Berks county, Pa., after the war and established an iron furnace at Birdsborough. He subsequently returned to Philadelphia and engaged in business. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 25, 1795. MORRIS, Calvary, representative, was born in Charleston, Va., Jan. 15, 1798, and was brought up on a farm in the Kanawha valley. He was married in 1818 to a daughter of Dr. Leonard Jewett of Athens, Ohio ; removed to Ohio in 1819 ; settled in Athens county, and was sheriff of the county, 1823-27 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1827-29 and 1835-36 ; state senator, 1829-31 and 1832-35, and a Whig representative from the sixth district of Ohio in the 25th, 26th and 27th congresses, 1837-43. He engaged in wool growing and in 1843 introduced fine wool sheep into Ohio. In 1847 he removed to Cincinnati in 1854, returned to Athens, and in 1855 was elected probate judge of the county. He died in Athens, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1871. MORRIS, Caspar, physician and author, waff born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1805; son of Israel W. Morris ; grandson of Capt. Samuel Morris (1734-1812), and a descendant, through Samuel (1711-1782) and Anthony (1682-1783), of Anthony the immigrant (1654-1821). He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1826, and practised in Philadelphia until 1871. He was married to Ann Cheston of Philadel- phia. He lectured on the theory and practice of medicine in the Philadelphia Summer School of Medicine and the Philadelphia Medical institute, and on children's diseases at the Blockley Alms- house hospital. He founded and managed the Institution for the Blind, and was elected vice-president and manager of the Protestant Episcopal hospital. He is the author of : Life of William Wilberforce (1841); Memoir of Miss Mar- garet Mercer (1848); Letter to Bishop Alonzo Pot- ter on Hospital Needs (1851); Lectures on Scarlet Fever (1858); Essay on Hospital Construction and Management (187')); Rilliet and Barthel on Dis- eases of Children, and Heart Voices and Home So7igs. He died in Philadelphia, March 16, 1884. MORRIS, Charles, naval officer, was born in Woodstock, Conn., July 26, 1784. His father was purser on the U.S. frigate Congress. He was ap- pointed a midshipman on board the Congress; sailed from Portsmouth, N.H., and made a cruise to the West Indies. On his return he was as- signed to the Constitution, Commodore Preble's flagship, and was one of the seventy who volun- teered on the expedition to recapture or burn the the U.S. frigate Philadelphia, then in the hands of the Tripolitans. On Feb. 3, 1804, the party under Lieutenant Decatur of the Enterprise sailed from Syracuse in the ketch Intrepid, and after a stormy voyage of fifteen days gained the ' harbor of Tripoli and found the Philadelphia an- chored within half a gunshot of the bashaw's castle and the principal battery. Two Tripoli- tan cruisers lay by the starboard quarter and several gunboats on the starboard bow. The Philadelphia was manned by one thoasand Turks and her guns were all mounted and loaded. At eleven o'clock at night the ketch came alongside and the crew of seventy boarded the frigate. Lieutenant Decatur and Midshipman Morris leading the boarders, and Morris was the first to reach the quarter-deck of the Philadelphia. They surprised the Turks, killed about twenty, the rest either jumping overboard or being driven below, and after setting fire to the frigate the boarders drew off and under a hail of shot retreated safely out of range. Morris was trans- ferred to the Argus, Lieut. Isaac Hull, and after the action of Aug. 3, 1804, while in a small boat belonging to the Argus, boarded and captured a small French privateer that had just escaped