MORRIS
MORRIS
delphia, and whose brew house is represented on
a map of thecity in 1703. He was a Quaker min-
ister and ijrominent in public affairs. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania,
A.B., 1851, A.M. and M.D., 1854; practised
medicine in Philadelphia ; was physician to the
Foster home for children, 1856-60 ; to the Moya-
mensing house of industry, 1855-59, and to the
hospital of the P. E. church, 1857-72. He served
as acting assistant-surgeon in the U.S. army,
1862-63, in the army hospitals in Philadelphia
and at Gettysburg. He was an examiner and
lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania,
1855-63 ; was elected a fellow of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, a member of
the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1854, of the
Franklin Institute in 1870, of the American Phi-
losophical society in 1883, of various medical as-
sociations, of the American Public Health asso-
ciation, and of the Pennsylvania Horticultural
society. He was twice married : first in 1854 to
Hannah Ann, daughter of Isaac Tyson, Jr., of
Baltimore, Md., who died in 1867 ; and secondly
in 1870 to Mary E. Stuart, daughter of Laurence
Johnson of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author
of a translation from the German of Prof. C. G.
Lehmann's Manual of Chemical Physiology
(1856); and of Tlie Milk Supply of Large Cities
(1884); The Water Supply of Philadelphia ; Annals
of Hygiene ; Report of the Philadelphia Water
Department, and many articles on sanitary, bio-
logical, medical and literary subjects.
MORRIS, James Walter, educator, was born in Carter county, Mo., Dec. 31, 1858 ; son of Cal- houn R. and Martha L. (Carleton) Morris ; grand- son of Erving and Cynthia (Reid) Morris of Vir- ginia and of William Carleton of Kentucky. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1881 ; was mar- ried in 1884 to Helen Wheeler ; prepared for col- lege at Carleton institute ; was graduated at Mc- Kendree college in 1888 ; took a post graduate course there and at Boston university ; was prin- cipal of an academy in California, 1895-96, and received the degree of Ph. D. from Taylor uni- versity, Ind., in 1900. In May, 1901, he was elected president of Montana Wesleyan university, Helena, Mont. He is the author of Epworth League Manual of Methodist Doctrines (1893).
MORRIS, John Gottlieb, clergyman and author, was born in York, Pa., Nov. 14, 1803. His father was a surgeon in the Continental army during the American Revolution. John attended the College of New Jersey, Princeton, where he was awarded a prize for oratory ; was graduated from Dickinson college, A.B., 1823, A.M., 1826 ; from Princeton Theological seminary, 1826, and from the Evangelical Lutheran Theological semi- nary, Gettysburg, Pa. , in 1827. He was ordained, Oct. 15, 1827, at Baltimore, Md., and was pastor
of the First Lutheran church at Baltimore, 1827-
60. He was an intimate friend of George Pea-
body, a trustee of the Peabody Institute and
its librarian in 1860. He was pastor of the Third
Lutheran church, Baltimore, 1864-73, and of the
Lutheran church at Lutherville, Md., 1875-85.
In 1853, with his brother, he founded the Luther-
ville Ladies' seminary. He was a lecturer on
natural history at Pennsylvania college in 1834
and on pulpit eloquence at the Evangelical Luth-
eran Theological seminary in 1874, besides deliv-
ering numerous lectures at the Smithsonian In-
stitution, Washington. He was secretary of the
General synod in 1839, president in 1843 and
1883 ; president of the First Lutheran church
Diet, held at Philadelphia in 1877 ; a trustee of
Pennsylvania college, and a director of the
Evangelical Lutheran Theological seminary for
many years. He was a member of many scienti-
fic societies ; chairman of the entomological sec-
tion of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science ; president of the Maryland
Bible society, and of the Maryland Historical
society. He traveled in Europe in 1846, and
while in England aided in the establishment of
the Evangelical Alliance at London. He founded
the Academy of Lutheran Church History, and
was its first and only president. The honorary
degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Penn-
sylvania college in 1839, and that of LL.D. by the
same college in 1873. He is the author of:
Catechumen's and CommunicanVs Companion
(1831); Henry and Antonio (1831); Catechetical
Exercises on Luther^ s Catechism (IS^^)-, lectures on
Oeology (1839); Popular Exposition of the Gos-
pels (2 vols., 1840); Life of John Amdt (1853);
To Rome and Back Again (1853); Life of Martin
Behaim (1856); Life of Katharine de Bora (1856);
The Blind Girl of Wittenberg (1856); Quaint
Sayings and Doings concerning Luther (1859);
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of North America
(1860) ; Synopsis of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of the
United States (1862) ; TJie Lords Baltimore (1874);
Bibliotheca Lutherana (1876); Fifty Years in
the Lutheran Ministry (1878); A Day in Caper-
naum (1879); 77ie Diet of Augsburg (1879); Augs-
burg Confession and the Thirty-nine Articles
(1879); Journeys of Luther (1880); Luther at
Walburg and Coburg (1882); Life of Luther
(1883) ; Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord's Supper
(1884); Memoirs of the Stork Family (1884). He
died in Lutherville, Md., Oct. 10, 1895.
MORRIS, Lewis, statesman, was born in New York city in 1671 ; son of Richard and Sarah (Cole) Morris. Richard Morris an officer in Cromwell's army, immigrated to the West Indies and subsequently to New York, and in 1650 purchased from the Indians a tract of 3000 acres near Harlem, which became known as Mor-
