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	Robert Morris Robert Morris 1734-1806, American merchant, known as the "financier of the American Revolution," and signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Liverpool, England. Morris emigrated to America in 1747 and was soon apprenticed to the merchant Charles Willing in Philadelphia. He showed an... Read more
	Morris Birkbeck Morris Birkbeck 1764-1825, English pioneer in the United States. One of the most advanced agriculturists in England, he had a huge farm in Surrey. In 1817 he emigrated to the United States. He and another English traveler, George Flower, sought to create a settlement in Illinois. The two quarreled,... Read more
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	Sheryl Lee Ralph Ralph, Sheryl Lee 1956(?)–PERSONALBorn December 30, 1956 (some sources say 1955), in Waterbury, CT; daughter of Stanley (a college administrator) and Ivy (a fashion designer) Ralph; sister of Michael Ralph (an actor); married Eric George Maurice (an art collector), December, 1990 (divorced, 2001);... Read more
	Wright Morris Wright Morris (Wright Marion Morris), 1910-98, American writer, b. Central City, Nebr. He was for many years professor of English at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State Univ.). His fiction treats the relationship of the burden of American history to the present, and the evolution... Read more
	George Pope Morris Morris, George Pope (1802–64),New York journalist and poet, who occupied a minor position in the Knickerbocker Group. He became editor of the New‐York Mirror (1824), and won a temporary reputation for his drama Brier Cliff (1826) and his operetta The Maid of Saxony (1842), but is best... Read more
	Morris Louis Morris Louis 1912-62, American painter, b. Baltimore. Louis is noted for soaking poured paint through unsized and often unstretched canvas. Prior to 1960 he did a series of veil and floral paintings using overlapping areas of muted, transparent colors in organic patterns. After 1960, Louis worked... Read more
	Kelmscott Press Kelmscott Press printing establishment in London. There William Morris led the 19th-century revival of the art and craft of making books (see arts and crafts ). The first book made by the press was The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891), by William Morris. The masterpiece of the press was ... Read more
	Lewis Morris Lewis Morris Lewis Morris (1671-1746) was an American colonial official. Chief justice of New York, he later became royal governor of New Jersey. The son of a Barbadian merchant, Lewis Morris was born on Oct. 15, 1671, on the 500-acre estate his father and uncle had purchased in New York.... Read more
	Garrett Morris Garrett Morris 1937 Read more

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