Morton
Morton names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Morton WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN, an American dental surgeon
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN, an American dental surgeon, and the reputed discoverer of anæsthetics; born in Charlton, Mass., in 1819. In 1840 he commenced the study of dentistry in Baltimore, and began to practice in Boston. In 1844, in the latter city, while engaged in experimental study, he discovered ethereal anæthesia. It was first publicly tested on Oct. 16, 1846, in a surgical operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He patented his new anesthetic under the name its advantages of "letheon," offering free to the charitable institutions of England and the United States. The committee of the French Academy awarded the Montyon prize of $1,250 to be equally divided between Dr. Jackson and Dr. Morton; but the latter refused to receive this joint award, protested against the decision of the Academy, and prize in 1852 received the Montyon yon medal. He died in New York City, July 15, 1868.
Morton JAMES DOUGLAS, 4th EARL OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES DOUGLAS, 4th EARL OF, regent of Scotland, younger son of Sir George Douglas; born in Dalkeith, Scotland, in 1530. Having married a daughter of the 3d earl, he received the earldom on the death of his in 1553. He favored the father-in-law, father-in-law, Reformation, and was made Lord High- Chancellor of Scotland in 1563. Three years later he took part in the murder of Rizzio, and fled to England; obtained the queen's pardon, through the influence of Bothwell. Informed of the plot against Darnley, he refused to share in it. He was one of the leading opponents of Bothwell, was again made chancellor, and in 1572 appointed regent. Having made himself odious to the people, he resigned, but afterward resumed office. Charged as accessory to the murder of Darnley, he was tried, condemned, and beheaded by the instrument he himself had introduced into Scotland, June 3, 1581.
Morton LEVI PARSONS, an American financier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEVI PARSONS, an American financier; born in Shoreham, Vt., May 16, 1824. At the age of 16 he worked in a country store. In 1849 he went to Boston, and, though possessed of little capital, was admitted as a partner in a prominent mercantile firm; five years later he removed to New York, and in 1863 established the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co., with a branch in London under the name of Morton, Rose & Co. In 1878 he was elected to Congress; re-elected two years Appointed minister to France later. by President Garfield. In 1888 he was elected Vice-President on the ticket headed by Benjamin Harrison, and was governor of New York in 1894-1896. Died in 1920.
Morton PAUL, American financier and politician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PAUL, American financier and politician; born in Detroit in 1856; died in New York City in 1911. He was educated in Nebraska public schools, and at the age of 16 entered the employ of the Burlington and Missouri River railroad as office boy. By his abilities he gained rapid promotion, becoming vicepresident of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., in 1890. In 1904 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt, but in 1905 he resigned, to become president of the Equitable Life Assurance Co. of New York City.
Morton OLIVER PERRY, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OLIVER PERRY, an American statesman; born in Wayne co., Ind., Aug. 4, 1823; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847; elected governor of Indiana in 1861, and by his loyalty to the government did much to sustain the administration during the try ing times of the Civil War. He was elected a United States Senator from Indiana as a Republican in 1867, serving till 1877, and in the latter year was a member of the Electoral Commission. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 1, 1877.
Morton JAMES MADISON, JR., judge
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES MADISON, JR., judge; born in Fall River, Mass., in 1869, he graduated from Harvard with the dein his native town. He was a member of gree of LL.B. in 1894, and then practiced the Board of Police at Fall River from 1903 to 1912, and became U. S. District Judge in the latter year by appointment of President Taft. He is president of the Sagamore Manufacturing Co. and trustee of the Bradford Durfee Textile School at Fall River.
Morton JULIUS STERLING, American politician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JULIUS STERLING, American politician; born in Adams, N. Y., in 1832; died in Lake Forest, Ill., in 1902. Graduated from Union College, 1854, then became editor Nebraska City "News" of Nebraska City, Neb. Was member Territorial Legislature, 1856-1857, then, in 1858, its secretary. When Governor Richardson resigned in 1858, he acted as governor. Was a member of President Cleveland's Cabinet (1893-1897) as Secretary of Agriculture. He is especially remembered as the originator of Arbor Day.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton still dominates this page, though his billing as "the reputed discoverer of anaesthetics" has stayed exactly as contested as Collier's made it sound in 1921: Crawford Long, Horace Wells and Morton's own rival Charles Jackson are all still argued for, while the room at Massachusetts General where the 16 October 1846 operation took place is preserved as the Ether Dome and Ether Day is marked there annually. Two of the others turned out to be father and son, which Collier's does not mention: J. Sterling Morton, the Nebraska editor who invented Arbor Day in 1872, was the father of Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, and of Joy Morton, who founded the Morton Salt company. Levi P. Morton, noted here as having just died in 1920, is now remembered mainly as a rare Vice-President who declined the job once (in 1880) and took it later under Harrison; Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's Civil War governor, survives in state memory and in a Statuary Hall figure, while the Fall River judge James Madison Morton Jr. has faded almost entirely. The 4th Earl of Morton's grim end in 1581 remains the page's best story, and the beheading machine he is said to have brought to Scotland, the Maiden, is still on show in Edinburgh.
Written for this edition, 2026.