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EDWIN DENNISON MORGAN (1811-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWIN DENNISON MORGAN (1811-1883)  ,
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American merchant and philanthropist, one of the " war
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governors " of New York state, was born in Washington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on the 8th of
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February 1811 . He was first a clerk and then a partner in his
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uncle's store at
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Hartford,
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Connecticut, and became head of the New York
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firm of E . D . Morgan & Co . (formed in 1847) . He engaged in politics, first as a Whig and then as a Republican . In 1849 he was elected president of the Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York City; he was a member of the state senate in 1850-1853 and procured the passage of the
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bill providing for the establishment of Central Park in New York City; in 1855-1858 he was state
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commissioner of immigration; from 1859 to 1863 he was governor of New York, being the first Republican executive of the state; in 1863-i869 he was
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United States senator from New York . He died in New York City on the 14th of February 1883 . Morganwas one of the founders of the Republican party, and was chairman of the
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National 'Republican Committee in 1856-x864 and in 1872 . He was one of the most efficient and able' of the w'idt'igovernors; even before the 'outbreak of the
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Civil War he did much to prepare the `state government for it, and from September 1861 to
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January 1863 he was in command of the military department of New York, with the rank- of major-general of
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volunteers . He was a liberal donor to Union Theo-logical Seminary, Williams College and other institutions . His collection of paintings and sculpture, much of which had long been loaned to the Metropolitan Museum, was sold in January 1886 .

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