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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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as the orator and guest of honor,and later did the same at Convention Hall, Rochester. He is honor-ary vice-president of the Lincoln University Endowment Association. Mr. Miller was selected by the Commissioner of the FrenchGovernment to be chairman of the American Committee of Honorfor the International Maritime Exposition at Bordeaux, France, andin 1907 was chosen secretary and later vice-president of the RobertFulton Monument Association, of which he was one of the founders. For four years before coming to New York, Mr. Miller wasChief Assistant United States Attorney for Eastern District of Vir-ginia, and at the direction of President Roosevelt was commissionedSpecial Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, being placedin charge of important cases pending in the Supreme Court of theUnited States. He is a member of the American and other Bar Associations, andof the New York Southern Society. He married Miss Edna M. Allen, of New York, and has onechild, Allen Gordon Miller.
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ROBERT LEE MORRELLCommissioner Robert Lee Morrell Commissioner ROBERT Lee Morrell was born in the city of New York on the13th day of July, 1866. He is the youngest son born toThomas Morrell and his wife, Julia Abbey Morrell. Hisfather and mother, as well as his grandfather and great-grandfather,were natives of New York State. He received his education at Phillips Exeter Academy, and after-wards was a member of the class of 1888 at Columbia University.He then entered the Law School of that institution and graduatedin 1889, with the degree of LL.B. Afterwards, he attended apost-graduate course at the New York University, and graduatedwith the degree of LL.M. Mr. Morrell was thereon admitted to the bar of the State of NewYork, and has been practicing in the metropolis ever since. In1891 he became a member of the Association of the Bar of the Cityof New York. He joined the Zeta Psi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities,and has a wide circle of friends in his profession. He spent many summers in

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