Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Phineas Pemberton MORRIS
MORRIS, PHINEAS PEMBERTON, lawyer, author, was born May 2, 1817, in Bucks county, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, professor of law in the university of Pennsylvania since 1862; and the author of The Law of Replevin; and Mining Rights in Pennsylvania.
MORRIS, Phineas Pemberton, educator, was born in Bucks county, Pa., May 2, 1817; son of James Pemberton Morris. He was graduated from Georgetown college, D.C., A.B., 1836,. A.M., 1839; was admitted to the bar in 1840; was elected president of the Law Academy of Philadelphia in 1840, and was vice-prevost of that institution, 1863-64. He was professor of practice, pleading and evidence at law at the University of Pennsylvania, 1862-84, and professor emeritus, 1884-88. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Pennsylvania in 1884. He edited John W. Smith's "Landlord and Tenant (1856), and is the author of: Treatise on the Law of Repleven (1849), and Mining Rights in Pennsylvania (1860). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 1, 1888.
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