Lewis
Henry
Morgan
Born in Aurora, Cayuga, New York, USA
Ancestors 
Son of Jedediah Morgan
and Harriet (Steele) Morgan
Brother of
Jedediah Morgan Jr. [half], Emily Morgan [half], Sally Morgan [half], Emily Morgan [half], William Leeds Morgan [half], Amos Morgan [half], George Smith [half], Harry Morgan, Ledyard Morgan, Alfred Gray Morgan, Charles Douglas Morgan, Hamilton Morgan and Amanda Stanton Morgan
Husband of
Mary Elizabeth (Steele) Morgan
— married
1851 [location unknown]
Died
at age 63
in Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Nov 2015
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Biography
Lewis Morgan is Notable.
- Pioneering anthropologist and social theorist. His correspondence included prominent people such as Charles Darwin, John Wesley Powell and Karl Marx.
- Morgan is credited with the appointment of Ely Parker (Seneca) as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a job never before held by a Native American person.
- Morgan's most widely known work is "The League of the Iroquois", which is dedicated to Parker
- He is credited with "discovering" matrilineal descent from correspondence with missionaries working around the world
- Frederick Engels' "Origin of the Family State & Private Property", written after Marx's death, draws heavily upon Morgan's work
- Morgan was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and served as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1879
- Morgan's day job was as a railroad lawyer
- Morgan's archives are housed at the University of Rochester (NY), to which university he left much of his estate, to be used for the education of young women (at a time when that was controversial)
Sources
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- US Census, 1850 occupation: lawyer
- NY State Census, 1855 occupation: lawyer
- NY State Census, 1865 occupation: lawyer
- US Census, 1870 occupation: lawyer
- NY State, 1875 occupation: lawyer
- US Census, 1880
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