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LEWIS HENRY MORGAN (1818-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEWIS See also:HENRY See also:MORGAN (1818-1881)  , See also:American ethnologist, was See also:born near See also:Aurora, New See also:York, on the 21st of See also:November 1818 . He graduated in 1840 at See also:Union See also:College, then studied See also:law, was admitted to the See also:bar, and practised his profession with success at See also:Rochester, New York . Soon after leaving college See also:Morgan went among the See also:Iroquois, living as far as he could their See also:life and studying their social organization . In See also:October 1847 he was formally adopted into the See also:Hawk gens of the See also:Seneca tribe, and received the name " Ta-ya-da-wah-kugh." The See also:fruit of his researches was The See also:League of the Iroquois (1851; new ed . 1904), which, says J . W . See also:Powell, " was the first scientific See also:account of an See also:Indian tribe ever given to the See also:world." The success of the See also:book encouraged him to further See also:research, resulting in his Systems of See also:Consanguinity and See also:Affinity of the Human See also:Family (1869) . In 1877 he added to his reputation by See also:publishing See also:Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism, to See also:Civilization, in which he divided the progress of culture into seven stages— " See also:lower savagery," " See also:middle savagery," " upper savagery," " lower barbarism," " middle barbarism " and " upper barbarism," and " civilization." The book was in four parts, dealing with (I) the growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries; (2) the growth of the See also:idea of See also:government; (3) the growth of the idea of the family; and (4) the growth of the idea of See also:property . Morgan was a member of the New York See also:assembly in 1861 and of the New York See also:senate in 1868-1869 . In 188o he was See also:president of the American Association for the See also:Advancement of See also:Science . He died in Rochester, New York, on the 7th of See also:December 1881 . In addition to the See also:works above mentioned and many See also:magazine articles, he published The American See also:Beaver and his Works (1868) and Houses and See also:House-life of the American See also:Aborigines (1881) .

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