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Morgan

noun

United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881). Synonym: Lewis Henry Morgan.

United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945). Synonym: Thomas Hunt Morgan.

A Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688). Synonyms: Henry Morgan, Sir Henry Morgan.

Soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802). Synonym: Daniel Morgan.

United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913). Synonyms: J. P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan.

An American breed of small compact saddle horses.

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"Morgan" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the State Senate, 1867. Election of a United States Senator; feeling throughout the State regarding Senators Morgan and Harris; Mr. Cornell's expression of it. The candidates; characteristics of Senator Harris, of Judge Davis, of Roscoe Conkling. Services and characteristics of the latter which led me to support him; hostility of Tammany henchmen to us both. The legislative caucus. Presentation of ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... in the territory of the United States. He had discussed the matter fully with his friends in Congress, and repeatedly urged them to press it to an issue. Just before the Baltimore Convention, he urged Senator Morgan of New York, chairman of the National Republican Committee, to have the proposed amendment made the "key-note of the speeches and the key-note of the platform." Congressman Rollins of Missouri relates ...

— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... you ever see such an eye?" said Butsey, who had reasons of his own for quailing before it. "It's almost up to the Doctor's. You can't fool him—not for a minute. Talk about Pierpont Morgan! Why, he knows the whole blooming lot of us, just what we're worth. Why, that eye of his could put a hole right through any pocket. Watch him when he spots me." Pushing forward he exclaimed: "Hello, Al; glad ...

— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... Morgan is not a real breed, anyway," I persisted. "A sixty-fourth blood will get one registered. What does that ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

... me in English, a Greek-Turk from the island of Marmora, who, climbing out of the trench in which he and his gang had been hiding, announced that he had lived in New York for five years, in Fortieth Street, and worked for the Morgan Line, and begged that I get, him out of this nerve-racking place and where he belonged, somewhere on board ship. There were crowds like him—Greeks, Armenians, Turks, not wanted as soldiers but impressed for this sort of work. They were unloading fire-wood long ...

— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl

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