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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton, Samuel George 1799-1851 (search)
Morton, Samuel George 1799-1851 Physician; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 26, 1799. As early as 1834 he made a voyage to the West Indies in pursuit of his study of the diversity of the human races and the relations resulting from their contact. In 1840 he was president of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. He was the leading ethnologist of his time; and his Crania Americana and Crania Egyptica are standard works on ethnology as contributions to the natural history of man. He had a collection of 1,512 skulls, of which 900 were human—the largest and most valuable collection in the world. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 185
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton, William Thomas Green 1819-1868 (search)
ient was unconscious. Dr. Morton obtained a patent for his discovery in November, 1846, under the name of Letheon, offering, however, free rights to all charitable institutions; but the government appropriated his discovery to its use without compensation. Other claimants arose, notably Dr. Charles T. Jackson and Horace Wells, and he suffered great persecution in private and before Congress. His business was ruined, and at the end of eight years of ineffectual struggle to procure from Congress remuneration for his discovery he and his family were left in poverty. Honorable medical men of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia assigned to Dr. Morton the credit of the great discovery — the most important benefaction ever made by man to the human race —and Samuel George Morton, M. D. said so by signing an appeal for a national testimonial to him. He died in New York City, July 15, 1868, and the same year a monument was erected in the Public Gardens, Boston, to perpetuate his discov