Levi P. Morton
b. Shoreham, Vermont, May 16, 1824
d. Rhinebeck, New York, May 16, 1920
Bibliography
 
On the Death Roll: "Levi P. morton, Donor of morton Park to the City," Newport Daily News, 17 May 1920. 

Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1961. Washington, DC: United States Printing Office, 1961. 1365. 

Jordy, William H. and Christopher P. Monkhouse. Buildings on Paper: Rhode Island Architectural Drawings 1825-1945. Providence: Brown University, The Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island School of Design, 1982. 90,91. 

Malone, Dumas. ed. Dictionary of American Biography. vol. 13 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934, 258,259. 

Newport City Directory (1871-1886). 

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Price, Willadene. Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1959. 26,114,115. 

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 1 New York: James T. White & Company, 1898, 136. 

Townsend, George Alfred. "Life of Hon. Levi P. morton" in Lives of Harrison and morton. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, Publishers, 1888. 
 

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