The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . LEVI PARSONS MORTON. Born in Shnreham. May 10. 1824. Received coni-moB-school education. Engaged in mercantile busi-ness in Hanover, N. H., in IMS, in the dry-jjoods busi-nesfi in New York City in 1854. and in banking in NewYork City and London in 1863. Defeated for Congress1876, elected 1878. Gave a quarter of the cargo of S. Constellation for the starving poor in Irelandin 1880. Appointed U. S. Minister to France in Vice-Preeidenl of the United States in c
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . LEVI PARSONS MORTON. Born in Shnreham. May 10. 1824. Received coni-moB-school education. Engaged in mercantile busi-ness in Hanover, N. H., in IMS, in the dry-jjoods busi-nesfi in New York City in 1854. and in banking in NewYork City and London in 1863. Defeated for Congress1876, elected 1878. Gave a quarter of the cargo of S. Constellation for the starving poor in Irelandin 1880. Appointed U. S. Minister to France in Vice-Preeidenl of the United States in contributor to charitable and political JEREMIAH McLAIN RUSK. Born in Morgan County. Ohio, June 17. 1h80. Receivedpublic-echool education. Engaged in farming in VernonCounty, Wis., in 1853. Entered the Inion Army asMajor and became Brevet Brigadier-iieneral. WasState Bank Controller, lS(;f5-69, and M ember of Declined appointmentp of Chargti dAffairesto Parag:uay and Uruguay, and Cliief of the Bureau ofEngraving and Printing in 1881. Was Governor of Wis-consin, 1881-88. Appointed Secretary of the newly-created Department of Agriculture, 1889. ^s^-^>.
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