THE LIFE OF LEVI PARSONS MORTON.

[Republican Candidate for Vice-President.]

Levi Parsons Morton, the Republican candidate for Vice-President,

was born at Shoreham, Vt., on May 16, 1824. His father was the Rev. Daniel O. Morton, a Congregational minister and a lineal descendant of George Morton, who came to this country from England in the ship Ann in 1623. The Rev. Mr. Morton received

only $600 salary a year, and therefore could give his son only a common school education. His parents were of old New England stock, and, although they were thrifty, as was the character of New Englanders, they did not accumulate much wealth.

The boy early left school and began his business life as a clerk in a Concord, N. H., dry goods store, but not until his constitution, physical and mental, had been established by the best of home influences. He applied himself so closely to his duties and developed a capacity for business that he