MORTON
MORTON
began to collect skulls, wiiich when acquired by
the Aciideiny of Natural Sciences, of Philadel-
piiia, numbered 1,500 specimens, 918 of which
were liuman. He was professor of anatomy in
in Pennsylvania Medical college, 1839-43, and
one of the physicians and clinical teachers
of the Alms House hospital at Philadelphia
for many years. He was a member of the
Medical Society of Sweden, Royal Botanical
Society of Ratisbon, Academy of Science and
Letters at Palermo, Royal Society of North-
ern Antiquaries at Copenhagen, Academy of
Science, Letters and Arts de Zelanti di arci-
reale. Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow,
the Medical Society of Edinburgh, the Seucken-
burg Natural History Society of Frankfort-on-the
Main. He is the author of : Analysis of Tabular
Spar from Bucks County, Pa. (1827) ; A Synopsis
of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group
of the United States (1834) ; Illustrations of Pul-
monary Consumption (18S4:) ; Crania Americana,
or a Comparative View of the Skulls of Various
Aboriginal Nations of North and South America,
folio (1839); Crania Egyptiaca, or Observations
on Egyptian Ethnography, Derived from Vie His-
tory of the Monuments and Catacombs of Thebes
(1844) ; An Illustrated System of Human An-
atomy, Special, General, and Microscopic (1849),
and contributions to Silliman's Journal. He died
in Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1851.
MORTON, Thomas Qeorge, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 8, 1835; son of Dr. Samuel George and Rebecca Grellet (Pear- sail) Morton, and a descendant (maternally) of Henry Pearsall, Long Island, N. Y., 1644, and of Capt. John Underbill, 1630. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, 1850-51, and was graduated at the medical department in 1856. He was the resident surgeon at St. Joseph's hos- pital in Philadelphia in 1856, at Wills' Eye hos- pital in 1857, and at the Pennsylvania hospital, 1857-58. He settled in Philadelphia in the prac- tice of surgery in 1859, and served in the field in Virginia and at Washington, D. C, and was act- ing assistant surgeon of the U. S. army, 1862-64. He was also actively engaged in organizing mili- tary hospitals, including the U. S. Army hospital, Philadelphia, of which he was surgeon-in-chief, in 1863. He was one of the surgeons at Satterlee hospital, and consulting surgeon of the Mower Army hospital in 1863. He was surgeon to Wills' Eye hospital, 1859-74, and surgeon emeritus from 1874; consulting surgeon to the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind in 1862, surgeon to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1864, pathologist and curator of the Pennsylvania hospital, 1860-64 ; founder and surgeon to the Orthopaedic hospital in 1867 ; physician to the Howard hospital, 1865- ^ 75. and surgeon to the Jewish and Woman's ha«i-
pitals in 1870. He was commissioner of public
charities in Pennsylvania in 1883 ; consulting
surgeon to the Pennsylvania Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb in 1885 ; chairman of the lunacy
commission of Pennsylvania, 1886-93 ; commis-
sioner for the erection of the State Insane hos-
pital at Morristown, Pa., in 1876, and chairman
of the committee on plans and buildings ; presi-
dent of the American Society for the Restriction
of Vivisection, 1885-86 ; professor of clinical and
operative surgery in the Pliiladelphia Polyclinic
college, 1889, and vice-president of the Society for
the Protection of Children from Cruelty. He in-
troduced the ward-carriage into the Pennsylvania
hospital in 1866, the bed elevator and carriage in
1874, and received a medal from the Centennial
exposition in 1876 for his hospital ward dress-
ing-carriage. He was made a fellow of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1861 ; a mem-
ber of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadel-
phia, in 1856 ; honorary member of the Society of
Mental Medicine in Belgium, 1888 ; a member of
the American Philosophical society, 1900 ; com-
panion of the Loyal Legion ; member of the So-
ciety of Colonial Wars ; the Colonial Society of
Pennsylvania, the Founders and Patriots of Amer-
ica, the Sons of the Revolution, the Holland So-
ciety ; the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the
United States ; the American Surgical associa-
tion and the American Medical association in
1864 ; American Ophthalmological society, and a
member and officer in all the prominent medical
societies in Philadelphia. He was married, Nov.
12, 1861, to Ann Jenks, daughter of Dr. Thomas
Story and Ann (Jenks) Kirkbride, of Philadel-
phia. He contributed to (he American Journal
of Medical Sciences, and to the Pennsylvania
Hospital Reports, and is the author of : Lecture
on the Transfusion of Blocfd and its Practical Ap-
plication (1877) ; Surgery of Pennsylvania Hos-
pital, with Dr. William Hunt (1880); Trans-
fusion of Blood and its Practical Application
(1887) ; and History of the Pennsylvania Hos-
pital. 1751-1S05 (1895).
MORTON, William Thomas Green, dentist, was born in Charlton township, Mass., Aug. 9, 1819 ; son of James Morton ; grandson of Thomas Morton, a Revolutionary soldier, and a descend- ant of Robert Morton, who came from Scotland to Mendon, Mass., and removed thence to New Jersey, where he founded Elizabethtown. His father, a farmer, lost his property in 1835, and William was obliged to leave school and support himself. He studied dentistry with Horace Wells (q. V.) in Hartford, Conn., was a partner of Dr. Wells in Hartford, and soon after removed to Boston. He was married in May, 1844, to Eliza- beth, daughter of Edward Whitman, of Farming- ton, Conn. He entered as a student of medicine
