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Lewis H. Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American anthropologist and social theorist, who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the…
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Born 21 November 1818 · Died 17 December 1881 · Q313458
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2026· 2 entries
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1963· 1 entry
The lectures honor the career and seminal research of American anthropologist Lewis H
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1881· 2 entries
Died 1881-12-17.
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Karl Marx started reading Morgan's Ancient Society, thus beginning Morgan's posthumous influence among European thinkers
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1879· 1 entry
Morgan completed two construction projects
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1878· 1 entry
Conducted one final field trip, leading a small party in search of native ruins in the American Southwest
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1868· 1 entry
Published a work describing in detail the biology and habits of this animal, which shaped the environment through its construction of dams
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1866· 1 entry
Formed the Rochester Committee for the Relief of Southern Starvation
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1863· 1 entry
And Samuel Ely formed a partnership creating the Morgan Iron Company in northern Michigan
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1861· 2 entries
And of the New York State Senate in 1868 and 1869
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In the middle of his field work, Morgan was elected as Member of the New York State Assembly on the Republican ticket
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1857· 2 entries
Morgan returned to similar themes in an unpublished paper entitled "Animal Psychology", which he presented to the Pundit Club in Rochester, New York
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The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed that only the federal government could evict the Seneca from their land
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1856· 1 entry
Mary Elisabeth was born and in 1860 Helen King
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1855· 1 entry
Morgan and other Rochester businessmen invested in the expanding metals industry of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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1853· 1 entry
Mary's father died, leaving her a large inheritance
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1851· 1 entry
Morgan summarized his investigation of Iroquois customs in his first book of note, League of the Iroquois, one of the founding works of ethnology
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1847· 1 entry
In part to honor his work with the Seneca on the reservation issues
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1846· 1 entry
A general convention of the population of Genesee County, New York, sent Morgan to Congress with a counter-offer
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1844· 1 entry
Received permission from the former Freemasons of Aurora to use the upper floor of the Masonic temple as a meeting hall
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1843· 2 entries
Morgan published "Mind or Instinct: An Inquiry Concerning the Manifestation of Mind by the Lower Orders of Animals" in The Knickerbocker
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Named it the Grand Order of the Iroquois, followed by the New Confederacy of the Iroquois
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1842· 1 entry
Was admitted to the bar in Rochester, where he went into partnership with a Union classmate, George F
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1841· 2 entries
Or 1842 the young men redefined the society, renaming it the Order of the Iroquois
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Morgan and some friends from Cayuga Academy formed a secret fraternal society which they called the Gordian Knot
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1840· 2 entries
Studied at Union College (1840).
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Morgan returned to Aurora to read the law with an established firm
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1838· 1 entry
The Ogden Land Company began a campaign to defraud the remaining Iroquois in New York of their lands
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1826· 1 entry
Jedediah left 500 acres with herds and flocks in trust for the support of his family
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1818· 1 entry
Born 1818-11-21.
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