| Show LEVI P MORTON IS CALLED former vice Preal dent dies suddenly on ninety sixth birthday birthada BIrt hda poughkeepsie le N Y yrtl acl P nor ton nice ace pie of the until I 1 under president hairlson former goNer governor nor of the state of I 1 ork and one ono of the most noti gohd d finall chicre of ills fits gen generation cration died suddenly sunday evening slay 10 it was his ninety sixth bli lining and all ani da long the ener ablo ician haj had been reaching rec ching and rending tele grains of congratulation leu leil P morton was born in chore I 1 t slay may 10 16 18 1824 14 ho tile eon poll of nn an I 1 episcopal clergyman loung melton IN corked in a coustry store vent to school and I 1 fn kept a genral in Ila N 11 afeie lit built up a prosperous business busine in 1854 1834 he lie came carne to new sew york ond and founded the dry goods lious house oc or ifor ton which niter tho the panic in 1857 settling fur for fiat c cents cuts on oil the dollar mr morton soon after a this founded the tile banking house of morion morton bliss compan Com puni une one evening in n IKI 1803 he lie in gilted ted ull all the ci editors of morton A grinnell to r beside ills his plate ach tach guest found a check chek for the tile amount duo due him morally though not lefoll from the lous firm ilio lite next iteen str bir INI lorton lie voted to bustnes busl nes in lie kinli n of the lie syndicate that III lidded pell thu tile rouine lily twilit 4 III 1879 he lie wai nai cleiton to con coil b bi n great lt garfield cent sent him ns min milk liter ister to franco france in lit ISSI hy he had hall pie lousia declined the tile nomination for hie the nice ce and lie rinta four bears becoming ier vry jocular in paris through his ills labh entertain 11 in ibsh and in lit 1187 ho lie als anns defeated def foi fill tho the tatted statis senate hut but in IW 1888 he fie was elected nice ce pr president esidell t on the he lie did I 1 not 1 ot gt got a in lit 1601 but I 1 in 1 1841 wi elected governor of ne en lork ork ly by nebout plural plu lt |
