Lewis_Henry_Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan Lewis Henry Morgan 1818 - 1881 In a farmhouse a few miles south of Aurora, New York, Lewis Henry Morgan was born on November 21, 1818. He attended Cayuga Academy in Aurora and then attended Union College and graduated in 1840. He then returned to Aurora where he read law and studied the Classics of Ancient Greece and Rome. Morgan joined a young men's literary and social club and renamed it Grand Order of Iroquois. He even wrote a constitution to encourage a kinder feeling towards the Indians. He admired the Seneca and went to Congress to help them fight off the Ogden Land Company. The Seneca's adopted him into one of their clans and called him Tayadaowuhkuh or "one lying across" or "bridging the gap" (a bridge between the Indians and white man). Morgan discovered that the Indians in North America had some kinship patterns in common with each other. He was the first person to classify the kinship system of relationship The Indian Journals (1859-62). Morgan's work was the foundation for the new world view of genetic explanation, cultural evolution or social Darwinism, Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines (1965). He also brought to the people's attention morgan, lewis, american, indian, evolutionary, ancient, stages, society, societies, social, press, organization, new, journals, indians, human, henry, cultural, aurora, university, unilinear, thought, single, science, savage, people, past, order, one, morgan's, membership, kinship, first, evolution, elected