The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . tl-^^^^g .,y^iY OF AMERICAN BIOGKAPHY. 51. from public life. In 1861 at the request of be once more consented to come beforethepublic as a member of the peace conventi
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . tl-^^^^g .,y^iY OF AMERICAN BIOGKAPHY. 51. from public life. In 1861 at the request of be once more consented to come beforethepublic as a member of the peace convention. Hewas a prominent member of the Episcopal churchand took a conspicuous part in its diocesan conven-tions. He died at Jamaica, N. Y., July 7, 1867. MORGAN, Edwin Dennison, governor ofNew York (1859-63), was born in Washington, Berk-shire Co.,Mass., Feb. 8, 1811. After passing throughthe common schools he went to Hartford, Conn., in1838, where his uncle, Nathan Mor-gan, was engaged in business, andentered his store as a clerk on asmall salary. At the end of threeyears he had shown the possessionof such business qualities and hadbecome so important to his uncle,that the latter took him into part-nership. While in Hartford hewas elected a member of the citycouncil and was acquiring a per-sonal as well as business reputationwhen he decided to remove fromConnecticut and establish himselfin New York. This he did in 1836,and founded a mercantile housewhi
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