The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-29

parded as one of the abIest political speakers
in the state.
In 1860 he was elected reporter of the su,
urpme court. In July, 1862, when President
Lincoln issued his call for 100000 three-yeaI
trooDs. Gov. Morton called upon Harrison to
aid in recruiting the regiment for the SlNtn
Indi8ua district. His commission, bearing
date of July IA, 1862, was the hrsJ one issued
by the famous war governor, and made Har'
risOu a spcond-lieutenant. He was made cap.
tain of 4 as soon as it was recruited, and
when the whole regiment was filed he was Sc
lpctpd colonel.
Gov. Morton offered to send some one GiEe
into the field in order hat 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
Krntucky and Tennessee, the regiment IN
January. 1864. WAS formally assigned to
the first brigade (Ward's) of the third divi-
sion Of the Twentieth army corps, with which
body he served until the end of the war. AT
Rcslcu he captured the encmy's line and
four guns, and at Peach Tree Greek his BRAY
rrv was such that Gen. Hooker recommended
him to the secretary Of war for promotion
and he was made hrigadier-goneral.
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
fail Of 1864, with orders to report to Gov.
Morton. During that 30 days he again made
q canvas of the state, and was reelected for
another term. Then he rejoined the army,
WAS i'm the siege Of Nashville, served until the
surrender Of Johnson and was with his com
mand AZ the final review Of the Union forces
IN Washington.
In 1868 he declined a reelection as report
ct Of the supreme court and resumed the
vt-,rfi.n, Of Inn l., 2ZE hn h1aay,,n Tho Dn,
didate of the Republican party for governor,
brt owing to acomplicatiOn circumstances
WAS defeated. 1879 he was appointed on the
Mississippi river convention, and in 1880
elected United States senator for Indiana as
the successor. of Joseph +. Mcdonald, and
took his seat on March 4, 1881.
LEVI P. R
Levi Parsons Morton is in all respects Ia
selE-made man. He was born May IL, 1924,
at Shoreham in Vermont, just opposite old
Fort TicOnderOga. His father, Daniel Oliver
Morton, was a Congregational clergyman at
Shoreham and Springfield in Vermont, Win
chendon, Mass, and Bristol, n. II. His
death occurred at the latter place in 1852.
The income of q country minister is never
large, but in the case of Rev. Mr.. Morton it
was made to serve the purpose of supporting
his family as well as to give his six children o
tart in the world. 1t was not a great lift to
'N'1 DNt ~Shi"SNS AAhth III NhlNAAA hAN
the rest in the ease IF levi =. Morton. At
twenty years of age he found himself the pro.
prietOr of n grail store in Hanover, N. H. 1t
was n general store" with a little of every
thing for sale over the counter.
Going soon afterwards to New York. he
made a fortune in the dry goods business,
and then became a 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 of1SG2-3,
he was one of the tirmest 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-
litical 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, bnt
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. Thu vacant seat thus created
in the house of representatives was filed by
Roswell P. Flower. In May 1881, Mr.. Nor
ton was appointed honorary commissioner
general to the Paris international exhibition
of electricity.