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Show LEVI P. MORTON IS CALLE Former Vice-President Dies Sudden On Ninety-sixth Birthday. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Levi P. Mc ton, vice president of the United Stat under President Benjamin Harriso former governor of the state of Ke York and one of the most noted fina ciers of his generation, died sudden Sunday evening, May 16. It was his ninety-sixth birthday, a all day-long the venerable statesn1. had been receiving and reading tel grams of congratulation. Levi P. Morton was born in Shor ham, Vt, May 16, 1824, the son of t Episcopal clergyman. Young Mortt worked in a country store, went night school and then kept a gener store in Hanover, N. H., where he bui up a prosperous business. In 1S54 he came to New York at founded the dry goods house of Wo ton & Grinnell, which suspended aft the panic in 1857, settling for f if cents on the dollar. Mr. Morton soon after this foundi the banking house of Morton, Bliss Company. One evening in 180,1 he i vited all the creditors of Morton Grinnell to dinner. Beside his plat each guest found a check for tl amount due him morally, though n legally, from the suspended firm. Tl next thirteen years Mr. Morton (1 voted to business. In 1S08 be was member of the syndicate that helpi the government resume specie ra ments. In 1ST8 he was elected to co: gress by a great majority. President Garfield sent him as mi ister to France in 18S1 be had pr viously declined the nomination f' tlie vice presidency and he serv four years, becoming very popular Paris through his lavish entertai ments. In 1S85 and in 1.8S7 he was defeat! for the United States senate but 1SS8 he wns elected vice president ( the Harrison ticket. He did not g a renomination in 1S02, but in If! was elected governor of New York 1 about 1:50.000 plurality. |