William Morris Stewart

William Morris Stewart 1827-1909, American lawyer and political leader, b. Wayne co., N.Y. After migrating to California in 1850 he engaged in mining and held several state elective offices. He moved to Nevada, where his knowledge of mining law made him prominent, and upon Nevada's admission to the Union (1864) he became one of its first two senators. He served until 1875 and again from 1887 until 1905, when he retired. A strong supporter of the remonetization of silver, his political allegiance alternated between the Silver party and the Republican party. He wrote the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution in the form that was finally passed, was one of the first legislators to urge reclamation of land by irrigation, and played an important part in the passage of the National Mining Laws of 1866 and 1872.

Bibliography: See G. R. Brown, ed., Reminiscences of William Morris Stewart (1908).

Morris, William (1834–96) English artist, craftsman, writer, social reformer, and printer. Associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), he founded (1861) the Arts and Crafts Movement, a collection of decorators and designers influenced by medieval craftsmanship. Morris is perhaps best remembered for his wallpaper designs, which anticipated art nouveau in their use of the S-curve. In the 1880s he became interested in socialism, writing The Dream of John Ball (1886–87) and News from Nowhere (1890). In 1890, Morris founded Kelmscott Press.

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Morris, William (1834–96). Poet, artist, craftsman, and socialist, Morris was educated at Marlborough and Oxford. At first intended for the church, he became a painter under the influence of Rossetti. He quickly realized he had no great talent for painting but that he could design, and in 1861 founded Morris & Co. to produce wallpapers, furnishings, and stained‐glass windows. He raised the standards of English design and craftsmanship and through his Kelmscott Press, founded 1890, had a similar effect on book design and printing.