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Meaning of MORGAN

Pronunciation:  'morgun

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an American breed of small compact saddle horses
  2. [n]  American financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)
  3. [n]  soldier in the American Revolutionary War who defeated the British in the Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)
  4. [n]  a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
  5. [n]  American biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)
  6. [n]  United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
 
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 Synonyms: Daniel Morgan, Henry Morgan, J. P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan, Lewis Henry Morgan, Sir Henry Morgan, Thomas Hunt Morgan
 
 See Also: anthropologist, biologist, buccaneer, financier, life scientist, moneyman, mount, pirate, riding horse, saddle horse, sea robber, sea rover, soldier

 

 

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Morgan
A major biography of J. Pierpont Morgan, who, after inheriting his family`s wealth in the 19th century, invested in railroads and amassed a huge fortune that enabled him to rescue the U.S. economy from near collapse in the 20th century. Morgan was a philanthropist and a collector of art. Strouse, author of ALICE JAMES, which won the Bancroft Prize in history, spent more than 10 years researching and writing this work, and she had access to the files of Morgan family.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Mor"gan\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of a celebrated breed of American trotting horses; -- so
called from the name of the stud from which the breed
originated in Vermont.
 
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