Morgan

Morgan, LEWIS HENRY, an American archaeologist, was born at Aurora, New York, 21st November 1818, graduated at Union College in 1840, and became a lawyer at Rochester. He served in the state assembly (1861) and senate (1868), and died December 17, 1881. Morgan’s earliest work, The League of the Iroquois (1851), was the first account of the organisation and government of an Indian tribe; but even more valuable are his Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1869), and his treatise on Ancient Society (1877). He also published Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines (1881), and an account of the beaver.