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land surrounded by picturesque hills. It is primarily a residential suburb of New York, and has many handsome residences and a number of large estates. Near its centre is a public See also:

park, in which is a soldiers' See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument (59 ft. in height). At Morris Plains, about 4 M. to the See also:

north, is a See also:

state See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital for the insane (1876). Morristown, officially named in 1740 in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

Lewis Morris (1671—1746), then See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of New Jersey, and See also:

GRAND

grand-See also:

FATHER

father of Gouverneur Morris, was settled about 1710, under the name of See also:

West See also:

Hanover, by Puritans, who were attracted here by the presence of See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron ore. From See also:

JANUARY

January to May 1777, and again from See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1779 to See also:

JUNE

June 178o, Morris-town was occupied by the See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

army under See also:

Washington. Behind the See also:

court-See also:

house is the site of Fort Nonsense, built at Washington's orders, largely to keep his soldiers employed.

In December 1779—January 178o See also:

General See also:

Benedict See also:

Arnold was tried before a court See also:

MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

martial presided over by General See also:

Robert See also:

Howe (1732—1785) in the Dickerson See also:

TAVERN

tavern here, still See also:

STANDING

standing. In Morristown, at the old Speedwell ironworks (almost completely destroyed by See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire in 1909), was made a See also:

PART

part of the machinery of the " See also:

SAVANNAH

Savannah," the first steamboat that crossed the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic, and here See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel F. B. See also:

MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE (1791—1872)

Morse and See also:

ALFRED

Alfred Vail completed the invention of the electric See also:

TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

telegraph. Morristown was incorporated as a town in 1865. See A. M. See also:

Sherman, Historic Morristown, New Jersey; The See also:

Story of its First See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century (Morristown, 1905) and Julia K. Colles, Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown (Morristown, 1893).

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