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See also:MORTON, See also:LEVI See also:PARSONS (1824- ) , See also:American banker and politician, was See also:born at See also:Shoreham, See also:Vermont, on the 16th of May 1824.1 He was in business at See also:Hanover, New See also:Hampshire, in 1843-1849 and in See also:Boston in 1849-1854. He then became a partner in a New See also:York dry-goods See also:house. He established in 1863 the banking house of L. P. Morton & See also:Company (dissolved 1899), with a See also:London See also:branch which had See also:Sir See also:John See also:Rose (182o-1888) as its See also:principal member. The American See also:firm assisted in funding the See also:national See also:debt at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the resumption of specie payments, and the London house were fiscal agents of the See also:United States See also:government in 1873-1884, and as such received the $15,500,000 awarded by the See also:Geneva See also:Arbitration See also:Court in See also:settlement of the " See also:Alabama Claims " against See also:Great See also:Britain. In 1899 Morton became See also:president of the Morton See also:Trust Company in New York See also:City. He was a Republican representative in See also:Congress in 1879-1881, United States See also:minister to See also:France in 1881-1885, See also:vice-president of the United States during the See also:presidency of See also:Benjamin See also:Harrison in 1889-1893, and in 1895-1896 was See also:governor of New York, See also:signing as such the " Greater New York " See also:bill and the liquor-tax measure known as the " Raines See also:law." In 1896 he was a See also:candidate for the presidential nomination in the Republican national See also:convention.
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