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garded as one Of the ablest poIt .

In 1860 he was elected reporter of the SUI
preme court. In July, 1862, when President
Lincoln issued his call for 500, 600 threeyeaI
troops, GOV. Morton called upon Harrison to
AID IN recruiting the regiment for the Sixth
Indiana district. His commission, bearing
date of July IA, 1862, was the first issued
BY The famous war governor, and made Har
Tlson a second-leutenant He was made cap.
tain OF Co. A as soon as it was recruited. and
when the whole regiment was filed he was Sc
lected colonel
Gov. Morton offered to send some one a.ae
into the field in order that Harrison might
hold his civil position in Indianapolis But
this offer was refused and Harrison went in.
to the field with his troops. After serving in
kentucky and Tennessee, the regiment In
January, 1864, was formally assigned to
the first brigade (Ward's) of the third diyi.
sion OF the Twentieth army corps, with which
body he served until the end of the war. At
Resaea he captured the enemy line and
four guns, and at Peach Tree Creek his BRAY
cry was such that Gen. Hooker recommended
INN TO the secretary of war for promotion,
and he was made brigadier- general.
During his absence in the field the Demo
cratic supreme court declared vacant the
Office OF supreme court reporter, and another
person was elected to the position. Leave of
absence was granted Gen. Harrison in the
fall OF 1864, with orders to report to Gov.
Morton. During that 80 days he again made
canvas of the state, and was reelected for
another term. Then he reioined the army.
was IN the siege OF Nashville, served until the
surrender of j johnson, and was with his corn
mand at the nnal review of the Union forcl
IN Washington.
IN 1868 he declined a reelection as repof,
er OF the supreme court and resumed tn
practice oflaw. In 1876 he became the can
didate OF the Republican party for governor
puu owing TO complication OF circumstance
was defeated. 1879 he was appointed on IL
mississippi river convention, and in Is,
elected United States senator for Indiana
the successor of Joseph b. Mcdonald,
took his seat on March 4. 1881.
LEVI P. MORTON.
Levi Parsons Morton is in all respects
self-made man. He was born May Is, 1924
at shoreham IN Vermont, Just opposite old
Fort Hconderoga. His father. Daniel Oliver
Morton, was Congregational clergyman at
shoreham and Springfield in Vermont, Win.
chendon, Mass, and Bristol, n H. His
death occurred at the latter place in 1852
The income of a country minister is never
large, but In the case of Rev. Mr.. Morton ii
was made to serve the purpose of supporting
his family as well as to give his six children 4
start IN the world. 1t was not great lift to
De sure, but courage, pluck and talent did
the rest IN the case of Levi p. Morton. AT
twenty years of age he found himself the pro.
PAASSSA IN. H..
was a general store, :, with a little of every.
thing Tor sale over the counter.
Going soon afterwards to New York, he
made fortune IN the dry goods business,
and then became banker. He was the head
of the firm of Morton, Bliss Co., and is a
thorough business man-shrewd, enterprising,
liberal and intelligent
During the war, in the dark days of s62-3
he was one of the frmest supporters of the
Union. He never feared, as others did, that
the United States might not be able to repay
the money needed to carry on the war.
After the war he turned his attention to po-
llltlcal affairs, and Joined the Republican
party. Mr.. Morton was elected to congress
from the Eleventh district of New York. The
district had been strongly Democratic, but
his majority was over 1000. He was re-
elected two years after. President Garfield
nominated him as minister to France which
was unanimously confirmed by the senate in
March 1881. The vacant seat thus created
in the house of representa- was filed BY
Roswell z. Flower. In May 1881, Mr. Nor
ton was appointed honorary commissioner
general to the Paris International exhibition
of electricity.