The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . n. 17, 1781. A few weeks later illness forcedhim to return home. He later rose to be major-general and was elected to Congress in 1796. Hedied in Winchester, Virginia, July 6, 1802. MORGAN, Edwin Dennison, an Americanstatesman; born in Washington, Massachusetts, Feb. 8, 1811. Entered busi-ness when seventeen yearsold and after a successfulcareer as a merchant inHartford, Connecticut,and New York City,servedin the New York statesenate, (1850-53,) and waschairman of the Repub-lican National Committee(1856-64)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . n. 17, 1781. A few weeks later illness forcedhim to return home. He later rose to be major-general and was elected to Congress in 1796. Hedied in Winchester, Virginia, July 6, 1802. MORGAN, Edwin Dennison, an Americanstatesman; born in Washington, Massachusetts, Feb. 8, 1811. Entered busi-ness when seventeen yearsold and after a successfulcareer as a merchant inHartford, Connecticut,and New York City,servedin the New York statesenate, (1850-53,) and waschairman of the Repub-lican National Committee(1856-64). Elected gov-ernor of Nev York in1858, he served in themost critical period of thewar during the year 1862,supervising the raising and equipment of about220,000 soldiers. He declined the ofifice of Secre-tary of State offered him by President Lincoln in1865, and the office of Secretary of the Treasuryoffered him by President Arthur in 1881. He diedIn New York City, Feb. 14, 1883, leaving by will$795,000 to religious and charitable was United States Senator, EDWIN D. MORGAN. MORGAN, Sir Henry John. See Buccaneers,Vol. IV, p. 409. MORGAN, John Hunt, an American soldier;born in HuntsviUe, Alabama, June i, 1826; settledin Kentucky (with his parents) in 1830; took partin the Mexican campaign as a first lieutenant ofcavalry. He raised a body of cavalry for the Con-federacy and attained a wide notoriety as the leaderof a number of costly raids into Kentucky, Ohioand Indiana. He received a major-generals com-missipn, but was controlled direct by the Con-federate Secretary of War. On one of his raids in1863 he was captured with most of his commandand was imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary atColumbus. F>om this he escaped by tunnelingunder the walls, and while leading another raid inTennessee was shot by Federal troops, Sept. 4,1864. MORGAN, Junius Spencer, an American banker;born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, April 14, 1813;during his minority employed in the
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