The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-08

Dexter married Charlotte Apthorpe, youngest daughter of Perez Morton, att | torney general of Massachusetts, lady l of the most lovely and accomplished char | acter. She died In this city, Aug. II, 1919. 1 of bilious fever living only twelve days l after her arrival from the North. to join | a husband to whom she was truly devoted
 and from whom she had been separated for two years. She was buried in OaK- wood cemetery, being among the nrst females buried there.
 Perez Morton, the father of Mrs. Dexter was born in Plymouth. Mass, Nov. IS, 1751, and died at Dorchester, october IA. 1857. He was graduated at Harvard in l771. He was 8 member of the Commit tee of Safety in 1775. and an active admin istrator of public affairs during the Revo- lution. In April 1776. he delivered in be- half of the Boston civil authorities the formal oration over the remains of Gener- al Joseph Warren. This address, 1t was said, though eloquent, was an elaborate ly ornate production" He studied law after the peace, become eminent in his profession, and was Speaker of the Mas sachusetts House of Representatives, in lS06-1l and Attorney General in 1811-32. In 1920 he was delegates to the State Constitutional Convention.
 The mother of Mrs. Dexter was Sarah w entWOrtn one WAS DOTH August 29 1759. She married Perez Morton in 17s1. and died In Quincy. May A. 1S46. She was a constant contributor of short poems to the Massachusetts Magazine" and gained quite reputation under the pen name of "Philonia." part of which was due to the Iaudatory com ments of Robert Treat Paine, Jr,. by whom she was styled the American Sap pho. She also published Onabi or the T,1i koIA l., four cantos. My Mind and Thoughts" reflections in prose arranged with great formality, and various other poems.
 Shortly after his failure, Mir. Dexter removed to Nova Scotia, where Mrs. Dexter had relatives among whom was the then Governor, Sir John Wentworth and sister, married to rich Provincial Governor Wentworth was born in New Hampshire and was a graduate of liar yard, 1755 He had been sent to Eng land in 1765 to present petitions from his native province and in 1766 was made Governor of that Province and Surveyor of the Kings woods in America"
 As Governor he gave a charter to Dartmouth College and endowed 1t with nearly 45 ,OO0 acres of land. He returned to England just prior to the revolution. After peace was declared he came to Nova Scotia and became Lieutenant Gov ernor in liyZ lie was gwen Il pdrohelcy | in 1795.
 MT. Dexter remained in Nova Scotia about eighteen months While there, with the aid of his friends. he embarked in the manufacture of salt upon the Philip
 River. but did not succeed according to
 his expectations principally from want
 of sufficient capital.
 In 1S10 Mir Dexter returned to the United States and settled at Athens, on | the Hudson River, where his brother then
 resided Here he remained for six years,
 during which time his restless activity l displayed itself In the greatest variety of | pursuits Among these was cutting ship | timber from land belonging to his father; | the manufacture of brick on a large | scale for the New York market, the open | ing of marble uuarries in the interior of | the State, cultivation of the soil; the es-
 tablishment of a large Academic Institu- | ton. to which lie gave a portion of his | personal attention. and experimental re-
 searches in natural philosophy with a | view principally to useful improvements | in the arts, particularly those connected | with heat and of water as a mechani-
 cal agent. Commenting upon this portion | of his life, a near relative in 1S4S wrote:
 But fortune continued to frown upon his | efforts and to withhold that golden crown | which is seldom awarded unless as the I | In 1916 Mir Dexter's father died, as al-
 ready stated. his estate considerably i'm
 paired by the assistance which he had
 rendered his son in his unfortunate op-
 erations. By the death of his father, MT. | Dexter came into possession of a consid- l erabIe amount of Georgia land script. which he determined to locate personally in the Alabama Territory. In pursuance
 of this plan he ,Io went to wssnlns % ss ton, ana l Od1ca of the Territory was then located. It is reliably stated that he had, before
 arriving there. from information received
 in the City of washington, determined
 to secure. if possible, that point on the Alabama River now known as Montgom-
 cry. and adjacent lands. He was fully
 aware of the value of the point as town he declared afterwards, he had decided