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MORGAN, John Hunt, soldier, b. in Humsville, Ala., 1 June, 1826; d. near Greenville, Tenn., 4 Sept., 1864. In 1830 he settled near Lexington, Ky. He served in the war with Mexico as 1st lieu- tenant in a cavalry regiment. At the opening of the civil war he was engaged in the manufacture of bagging. He entered the Confederate army as captain of the Kentucky volunteers, and joined Gen. Simon B. Buckner at the head of the Lexing- ton rifles. During the winter of 1862-8 he com- manded a cavalry force in Gen. Braxton Bragg's army, and greatly annoyed Gen. William S. Rosen- crans's outposts and communications. He soon began a series of raids in Kentucky, in which he destroyed many millions of dollars' worth of mili- tary stores, captured and burned railroad-trains filled with supplies, tore up railroad-tracks, burned bridges, and destroyed culverts in the rear of the National army, and made it necessary to garrison every important town in the state. Moving with the utmost celerity, and taking a telegraph-opera- tor with him, he misled his foes and at the same time acquainted himself -with their movements. In 1862 he was appointed major-general. In 1863 he headed a bold and extensive raid into Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, but with nearly all of his com- pany he was captured and imprisoned in the Ohio penitentiary. He escaped by digging in Novem- ber, 1863, and then undertook a raid in Tennessee. While at a farm-house near Greenville, Tenn., he was surrounded in the night by National troops under Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, and in attempting to escape was killed.

MORGAN, John Tyler, senator, b. in Athens, Tenn.. 20 June, 1824. In 1833 his parents removed to Calhoun county, Ala., and, after receiving a good education, he studied law in Talladega, and was licensed to practise in 1845. In 1860 he was a presidential elector on the Breckinridge ticket, and obtained in the canvass of that year a reputation for eloquence. In 1861 he was a member of the state convention that passed the ordinance of seces- sion. -He joined the Confederate army in 1861 as a private, and subsequently became major and lieu- tenant-colonel, serving in Virginia. He was after- ward commissioned as colonel, and, returning to Alabama, raised the olst regiment, which he liber- ally aided in equipping. He went to the front in Tennessee, but was soon assigned to the head of the conscript bureau in Alabama, at the request of the state delegation in the Confederate congress. In 1863 he was appointed brigadier-general by •Gen. Robert E. Lee, but declined promotion. He was again commissioned brigadier-general in No- vember, 1863. and commanded a division in the winter of 1863-4, operating with Gen. James Long- street in eastern Tennessee, and with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Gen. John B. Hood. After the war he resumed his law practice in Selma. In 1876 he was again a presidential elector, and was also elected to the IJnited States senate as a Demo- crat, being re-elected in 1882, 1888, and 1894.

MORGAN, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Connecti- cut in 1674 ; d. in 1740. He was ordained a cler- gyman of the Dutcli Reformed church in 1697, and after settlements in East Chester. N. Y., from 1699 till 1704, and Greenwich, Conn., from 1704 till 1708, he held charges in Freehold and Middletown, N. J., where he served the Dutch and Presbyterian churches. From 1732 till 1737 he preached in Hopewell and Maidenhead, N. J. One of his Latin letters to Cotton Mather, dated 1721, is still pre- served in Worcester, Mass. In 1728 he was charged with having " practised astrology, countenanced promiscuous dancing, and transgressed in drink," which charges were not proved. In 1736 he was suspended from the ministry for intemperance, but was restored in 1738. Subsequently he was so affected by Whitefield's preaching that he travelled along the sea-coast of New Jersey as an evangelist and died in this work. In addition to sermons, he published treatises on " Baptism," " Original Sin," "Election," and " Sin its own Punishment."

MORGAN. Junius Spencer, banker, b. in West Springfield, Mass.. 14 April, 1813 ; d. in Monte Car- lo, Monaco, 8 April, 1890. He began by entering the employ of Alfred Welles, of Boston, with whom he continued until he became of age. In July, 1834, he joined the bank- ing-house of Mor- gan, Ketchum and Co., of New York, but he returned to Hartford about eighteen months later. He then be- came junior part- ner in the dry- goods house of Howe, Mather and Co., which in 1850 became Mather, Morgan and Co. A year later he

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James M. Beebe to form a copartnership in Boston, which, under the style of J. M. Beebe, Morgan and Co., became one of the largest dry-goods establishments in the United States. Mr. Morgan visited England in 1853, and was offered a partnership in the firm of George Peabody and Co., which he accepted on 1 Oct., 1854, and ten years later, on the retirement of Mr. Peabody, the firm became J. S. Morgan and Co. Under this name the house has grown in strength and influence until at present it ranks among the great banking-houses of the world. During his residence in Plartford, Mr. Morgan was active in the affairs of the Protestant Episcopal church, and also in various charitable enterprises. He was a very liberal donor to Trinity college, and in 1886 presented to the Hartford orphan asylum a generous contribution, known as the Sarah Morgan fund, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Spencer ]M organ. In 1887 he gave a large and valuable painting, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which he had purchased for that purpose, to the Metropolitan museum of art in New York city. He married in 1836 Jidiet, daughter of John Pierpont, the poet (q. t'.). — His son, John Pierpont, banker, b. in Hai'tford, Conn., 17 April, 1837, was educated at the English high-school in Boston, and then studied at the University of Gottingen, Germany. He returned to the United States in 1857, and entered the banking-firm of Duncan, Sherman and Co., of New York. In I860 he became agent and attorney in the United States for George Peabody and Co., of London, which relation he has since held with that firm and its successor. He became the junior partner of the banking-firm of Dabney, Morgan and Co. in 1864, and that of Drexel, Morgan and Co. in 1871. This house is among the chief negotiators of railroad bonds, and was active in the reorganization of the West Shore railroad and its absorption by the New York Central railroad. In 1887 it was conspicuous in the reorganization of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, which a syndicate of capitalists formed by Mr. Morgan placed on a sound basis.