Description
Inscribed by former Vice President Levi Parsons Morton to his daughter, the first edition of Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Honorable Levi Parsons Morton by Josiah Granville Leach.
Octavo, 191pp. Three-quarter black morocco, blue cloth boards. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Gilt trim to edges of covers, top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed. Slight seperation along hinges, still solid. Rubbing to corners, cloth, and edges of covers. Faint foxing throughout text.
Inscribed by the book’s subject, Levi Parsons Morton, on the front flyleaf: “Mary Morton / from her loving Father / Nov 21, 1902.”
Levi P. Morton (1824-1920) was the 22nd Vice President of the United States in the Benjamin Harrison administration. After his time as vice president, Morton was elected the 31st Governor of New York. A strong ally of Roscoe Conkling, Morton was offered the vice presidential nomination by James A. Garfield, but declined at Conkling’s suggestion. Morton lived to be 96 years old, and was the longest living vice president in United States history, until being surpassed by John Nance Garner in 1964.
