Bio of Morey, Charles Anson (b.1851) Wabasha Co., MN
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Morey, Charles Anson, (page 1249), was born August 9, 1851, and lived the
life of a farmer boy until nineteen years of age, when he was engaged to
teach the school at Gopher prairie, near Lake City. So successful was he
in this new field of operations, that the next year (1871) he came to
Winona, and entered the State Normal School to prepare himself more
thoroughly for that work. He graduated at the head of his class, May 22,
1872, and was at once selected by the authorities of the school, and
instructed to proceed with his preparations to take charge of the new
department of natural sciences about to be established in the school.
Accordingly, in September of that year, he entered the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston, as a special student in the scientific
departments. In the next two years he passed through the entire laboratory
course of that advanced and practical institution. During the latter part
of the last year he worked in company with Prof. A. Graham Bell, the
inventor of the telephone, At the close of the year he read a paper before
the society of arts and sciences of the institute, describing and
illustrating his improvements upon the phonantograph, an important
acoustical instrument. The paper was published in the "American Journal of
Science," and the improvements upon the familiar piece of apparatus have
been generally adopted. He was, in the spring of 1874, elected professor
of natural, science in the State Normal School at Winona, and at once
entered upon his duties. Under his direction laboratories were
established, and the new experimental method of teaching the sciences put
in full operation. A large amount of valuable apparatus was made on the
spot by himself, and by pupils under his direction. Upon the resignation
of Prof. William F. Phelps in 1876, Mr. Morey was appointed principal of
the school. Under his administration the curriculum, took many decided
steps in advance. The course of study was arranged upon the basis of a
year instead of a term. The advanced course and the professional course
for graduates of colleges and high schools were established. By his
economical management of the affairs of the school, the authorities were
enabled to supply the funds necessary to fit up and furnish the extensive
museum and art gallery of the institution, which was done under his
direction. He had, however, since a boy, determined to eventually make the
law his profession, and had employed his leisure accordingly. In 1879 he
resigned the principalship, was admitted to the bar, and immediately
entered upon the practice of law at Winona, as a member of the firm of
Berry & Morey. He was married November 28, 1877, to Kate Louise Berry,
daughter of Gen. C. H. Berry. They have two children, Janette and Charles
Berry. Mr. Morey is a member of the school board, a director of the
Merchants Bank, of the board of trade, and is secretary of the Winona
Building and Loan Association, and politically affiliates with the
republican party.