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  William Wilson Morgan, January 3, 1906—June 21, 1994 | By Donald E. Osterbrock | Biographical Memoirs
WILLIAM W. MORGAN WAS born and raised in the South, but went to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin as a student and spent the rest of his life there.
Morgan was tremendously stimulated by Baade's invited lectures on his new concept of stellar populations at the American Astronomical Society meeting at Perkins Observatory, Ohio, in December 1947 and at the subsequent meeting in California in June 1948 for the dedication of the 200-inch telescope.
Morgan was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1956, and was awarded the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1958, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1961, and the Henry Draper Medal of the NAS in 1980.
www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/wmorgan.html   (6283 words)

  
 Thomas W. Morgan
THOMAS W. MORGAN is warden of the Federal prison at Leavenworth.
Morgan's first introduction to the administrative side of those institutions of the state maintained for the reformation and punishment of criminals came with his appointment by Governor Hoch on April 1, 1907, as a member of the board of managers of the Hutchinson Reformatory.
Morgan is a democrat, was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1892 and 1904.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/biom/morgantw.html   (748 words)

  
 William W. Morgan, Ph.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morgan, W. and Besch, K. Effect of prolactin replacement on the number of tyrosine hydroxylase expressing neurons in the arcuate nuclei of Ames dwarf and normal nice.
Morgan, W. W., Bermudez, J., and Chang, X. The relative potency of pentobarbital in suppressing the kainic acid- or the N-methyl-D-aspartic acid-induced enhancement of cGMP in cerebellar cells.
Morgan, W. W., Walter, C. A., Windle, J. J., and Sharp, Z. 3.6 Kilobases of the 5' flanking DNA activate the mouse tyrosine hydroxylase gene promoter without catecholaminergic-specific expression.
www.uthscsa.edu /faculty/morganw.html   (272 words)

  
 Morgan
JAMES2 MORGAN (THOMAS1) was born 1826 in Hamilton or Roane County, Tennessee, and died April 02, 1865 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.
SARAH ELIZABETH "BESSIE"3 MORGAN (JAMES2, THOMAS1) was born October 23, 1854 in Hamilton County, Tennessee, and died March 29, 1943 in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
WILLIAM B3 MORGAN (JAMES2, THOMAS1) was born March 12, 1859, and died December 17, 1890 in (Kimbro Cem).
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 William W. MORGAN- 1843, Bibb Co., AL, - Elizabeth DAVIS or DAVIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William W. MORGAN was born in Virginia between 1790-1800 and died in Bibb County, Alabama in 1842 or 1843.
William was a schoolteacher, judging by the assets in his estate (paper cutter, for instance) and the fact that debtors owing for schooling are mentioned.
In the 1840 U.S. Census for Bibb County, William is on p.
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 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.72 (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1923 Morgan entered Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; it dated back to 1749, and Robert E. Lee was its president after the Civil War (when it was still called Washington College).
Morgan lived in Lee's Dormitory on campus his first year; after that in a college-approved rooming house, but ate his meals in the Washington and Lee dining hall.
Contrary to Morgan's stories in later life that he had almost no training in science, he was in fact a nearly straight-A student in mathematics, who was awarded a scholarship
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 Goodspeeds' History of Tennessee Sullivan County 1887   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Christie lived near where Kingsport now is, on the south side of Reedy Creek, The same neighborhood was the birthplace of Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines.
Dulaney, Abraham Looney and William Baird were appointed a board of trustees of the institution, In 1817 Matthew Rhea, Jr., Audley Anderson and Samuel Rhea, Jr., were appointed additional trustees, and it is probable that at about that date a building was erected and the school opened.
In 1860 it was mede a station, and William Robeson was assigned as pastor.
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 George William Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
George W. Morgan was buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery In Savonburg, Ks.
Dr. Morgan was a "horse and buggy doctor" until about 1910 when he joined the motor parade.
He rises about 6 and by the time he finishes his work around the house, eats breakfast and reads the paper, it is either time to go to the office or someone has come by his home needing treatment.
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 KY:Historical Society - Historical Marker Database - Search for Markers
Morgan had been captured, July 26, in NE Ohio at end of his third and his farthest north raid.
Thomas Morgan, 19, one of four brothers then in Morgan's Raiders under another brother, Gen. John Hunt Morgan, was killed near here July 5, 1863 as he led an attack on Union forces in the depot at Lebanon.
Morgan began raid to prevent USA move to Tenn. and Va. Repulsed at Green River, July 4.
kentucky.gov /kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=Subject&subject=157   (4722 words)

  
 Descendants of Edward MORGAN
MORGAN was born 1670 in Bala Coty, Merionnithshire, Wales, and died 1736 in Towamencin twp., Montgomery Co., PA. He married E
The Morgan Family was identified as being among the earliest Welsh settlers in the Towamencin area.
Edward Morgan and his wife Elizabeth had ten children; among their descendants were the frontiersman Daniel Boone, the Revolutionary War Brigadier General, Daniel Morgan [Gwynedd editor: this may be questionable], journalist/broadcaster Lowell Thomas, and mutual fund industry pioneer, Walter L. Morgan.
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 WILLIAM W. ANGEL COLLECTION
William W. (Wallace) Angel joined the Twelfth Indiana Infantry (Company G) as a first lieutenant at Indianapolis, Indiana, on 15 May 1861.
Portrait of William W. Angel wearing medal, GAR ribbon, by B. Ashbaucher of Bluffton, Ind.
Tintype, “On the Potomac, 1861.” Group photograph of William W. Angel and soldiers of the Twelfth Indiana Regiment posing around a campfire.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/p0341.html   (900 words)

  
 web\html - pafg10 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William Thomas SANSOM was born in 1834 in Crenshaw Co, AL.
She married William Thomas SANSOM on 28 Nov 1867 in Crenshaw Co, AL.
She married John W. Willis Noval GANNAWAY [Parents] was born on 11 Jul 1861.
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 Goodspeed's History of Tennessee - Sullivan County
He commanded a company in Col. Shelby's regiment at the battle of King's Mountain, was a member of the constituent convention of 1796 and of the Territorial Assembly, and after the organization of the State, was a member of the Senate until his death.
His sons, James A. and William B., were the owners of the famous "Allisonia Mills," in Middle Tennessee, and also the steamer "Cassandra," the only steamboat that ever entered Sullivan County.
The clerk of the law court is the deputy of the clerk of the circuit court of Sullivan County.
www.combs-families.org /combs/records/tn/sull-gs.htm   (7011 words)

  
 William F. Morgan Family
In Indiana, William and his wife and several other members of her Boggs family established a Presbyterian church at Sugar Creek, Shelby County on 15 July 1831.
William's wife Betsey Boggs was a sister of Sally Boggs who married William's nephew, Daniel A. Morgan.
His 120 acre farm was near Martinsburgh in Keokuk Co. He was elected to the Iowa Legislature in 1854 as a member of the Whig party and voted to move the state capitol from Iowa City to Des Moines.
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 More About William Heth Whitsitt
William Whitsitt, the immigrant, had a grandson, James Whitsitt, by name, who, in the great revival which swept over Virginia in 1785-92, was converted, and in 1789, connected himself with a little Baptist church organized in 1788, with a meeting-place on the Whitsitt farm.
Young William Whitsitt's father died when he was a lad of eleven years; and his mother became for a time the chief educative force in his life.
Thither William Whitsitt was sent, under the oversight of relatives, the Williamsons, who resided near the village.
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 Legacy of research done at Yerkes Observatory.
William W. Morgan established precise classification systems for the spectra of stars and the forms of galaxies.
With data obtained with the 40-inch Refractor between 1937 and 1951, Morgan deduced the spiral nature of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Morgan published several spectroscopic atlases, including the Revised MK Atlas for Stars Earlier than the Sun, in 1978, a classic work of stellar spectroscopy.
astro.uchicago.edu /vtour/history/oldresearch.html   (633 words)

  
 REPRISAL By: William W Johnstone-Reviewed
Frank Morgan rides with a brace of six guns, a reputation for knowing how to use them, and a private score he's vowed to settle.
Known on the frontier as The Drifter, Morgan has come to Colorado in pursuit of the hombres who killed the only woman he had ever loved.
William W. Johnstone is Zebra and Pinnacle's most prolific writer, with over 100 books to his credit -- and over 100 million copies of his books in print.
www.trbsi.com /reviews/REPRISAL-William_W_Johnstone.shtml   (383 words)

  
 The Bruce Medalists: William W. Morgan
After three years of undergraduate study at Washington and Lee University Bill Morgan joined the staff of the Yerkes Observatory, where he spent his entire career, including three years as director.
With Donald E. Osterbrock and Stewart Sharpless he demonstrated the existence of spiral arms in the Galaxy using precise distances of O and B stars obtained from spectral classifications.
Morgan invented the UBV system of magnitudes and colors, and, with Nicholas U. Mayall, developed a spectral classification system for giant galaxies.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/morgan/Morgan.html   (220 words)

  
 William Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morgan was a chorister with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "B" during the 1895 season.
It seems likely that he is the same individual as William Morgan whose career as a singer and stage manager between 1901 and 1909 is discussed here.
William Morgan may well have been a chorister from 1895 right through 1909:records of choristers are incomplete for that era.
math.boisestate.edu /GaS/whowaswho/M/MorganWilliam.htm   (279 words)

  
 Silent Era : PSFL : Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
Bow’s scenes had been edited out of the previous film before release; this film was the first in which the public saw her.
However, the rigid Morgan will not allow his daughter to marry other than a Quaker whaler, and Dexter immediately signs on as a whaler.
Swooning at the thought, Patience declines but she is swayed by the desperate and elderly Morgan.
www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/D/DowntotheSeainShips1922.html   (628 words)

  
 SHOWDOWN By: William W Johnstone-Reviewed
Legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan rides into a small Idaho town, where his infamy has preceded him after a wide range war in Montana.
Morgan comes face to face with a dozen highly-skilled killers seeking to collect the ransom on his head.
When world-renowned gunfighter Frank Morgan rides into a small Idaho town, he's gunned down by a dozen highly-skilled killers seeking to collect the ransom placed on his head.
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 Octogenarian Charles H. Haswells' 1816-60 New York Reminiscences Excerpts Ch. 9
Jacob Barker, who has been already mentioned (1822), in consequence of his connection with the Exchange Bank at a previous date, and the Washington and Warren at a very late period, was very seriously and generally censured in the public prints, and some years after this he became a citizen of New Orleans.
Before this building was completed, William Morgan published his book purporting to reveal the secrets of Masonry, and then occurred his hidden and unexplained disappearance.
In 1832 William Wirt was Anti­masonic candidate for President of the United States, and obtained the electoral votes of Vermont, a State which was for several years wholly under Anti­masonic rule.
www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/ny1816-60/oct09a.html   (1661 words)

  
 William De Morgan
Sadly, William De Morgan has been dead since 15 January 1917, so he didn't have anything to say for this exhibit.
After De Morgan's health failed, he spent increasing lengths of time in Italy.
De Morgan then went on to a very successful career as a novelist.
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 Morgan
Morgan, Daniel J. (36), Malinda C. James J. (11), Daniel J. (9), William H. (2), Clinton W. Morgan, Sanford (50), Rod-y (40), William W.
Morgan, Ashley R. (34), Annie L. Arrie L. (4), Clide M. Henry and Nancy (_____) Morgan
Morgan, Elias (49), Louiza (40), Henry (23), Robert (21), Hattie (20), Rhoda (19), Louiza J. (17), Callie (16), Sallie (15), Willie (13), Octor (11), James (8), Eula (5), Arlee (3), Sanford (?/12)
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 Descendants of Edward Foulke Generation Six
viii. MARY W. was born January 18, 1795, and died March 13, 1874.
WILLIAM S. was born December 27, 1828, and died September 23, 1908.
MORGAN April 16, 1844 in Gwynedd Mo. Mtg., Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of M
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 ROBERT W. MORGAN BOSSOGRAPHY PAGE 5
A consummate professional, Robert W. met the challenge… proving to be one of the best "talkers" in the biz, and had the best ratings on the station.
You didn’t have to be an Angelino to hear Robert W. He also hosted a number of nationally syndicated radio shows including; "Record Report", and ABC/Watermarks "The Robert W. Morgan Special Of The Week" where he interviewed the hottest music personalities in the world.
If you were traveling coast to coast in the 70’s and 80’s you probably heard Robert W.’s in-flight radio "Morgan’s Manor" show which ran on TWA for 5 years.
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Morgan, AL 1850 Federal Census (INDEX - File 3 of 7) This Census was transcribed by Earnie R. Breeding and is NOT YET proofread Submitted to the USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/ Copyright 2004 by Earnie R. Breeding
pg0238a.txt 243B 23 Holden William W. 10 Morgan Cty, Alabama pg0238a.txt 243B 19 Holden Willias 22 Ala.
pg0214a.txt 221A 14 Junkins William 23 S.C. pg0214a.txt 231A 21 Kaeiser Andrew 50 Pa. pg0231a.txt 231A 22 Kaeiser Margaret R. pg0231a.txt 231A 23 Kaeiser William 1 Ala.
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William F. Sweeney Xenophon Zapis 1955 Dollars: $5,510 Donors: 7 Participation: 11% Hon.
William B. Pike Robert E. St. Leger Marvin Warren 1959 Dollars: $2,635 Donors: 10 Participation: 21% Hon.
Thomas W. Gray Robert W. Haskins Richard C. Klein Michael P. Nakon Thomas J. Scanlon Hon.
www.law.csuohio.edu /development/documents/Alumni_Donors_By_Year.doc   (2188 words)

  
 William P. Morgan, Ed.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Garvin, A.W., Trine, M.R., & Morgan, W.P. Affective and metabolic responses to hypnosis, autogenic relaxation, and quiet rest in the supine and sitting positions.
Morgan, W.P. Psychological factors associated with distance running and the marathon.
Morgan, W.P. Utility of exertional perceptions with special reference to underwater exercise.
www.education.wisc.edu /kinesiology/people/wmorgan.htm   (436 words)

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