- Edward de Veaux Morrell
Edward de Veaux Morrell (
August 7 ,1863 –September 1 ,1917 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Morrell was born in
Newport, Rhode Island . He attended private schools and graduated from theUniversity of Pennsylvania atPhiladelphia , where he was a member ofSt. Anthony Hall , in 1885. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Philadelphia. He was a member of the select council of Philadelphia from 1891 to 1894. He was active in thePennsylvania National Guard , serving as a colonel of the Third Regiment and brigadier general commanding the First Brigade.He married Louise Bouvier Drexel (
October 2 ,1863 –November 5 ,1945 ), daughter ofFrancis Anthony Drexel and niece ofAnthony J. Drexel , the most influential financier in the U.S. in the nineteenth century. Louise's mother, Emma Bouvier, is related to the family ofJacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis . Louise's half-sister was canonized asSaint Katharine Drexel onOctober 1 ,2000 byPope John Paul II .Morrell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Alfred C. Harmer . He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Militia during the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906.He established the first telephone line north of
Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , and built an electric-light plant there. He was a member of the board of education of Philadelphia from 1912 to 1916. He was a resident ofTorresdale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . He later went went toColorado Springs, Colorado , for his health, and died there in 1917. Interment in the family crypt at Eden Hall, Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ources
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* [http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/wh/nnne.html#more Morrell's Torresdale home]
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