Editing Morrison Waite (section)

==Early life and education==
Morrison Remick Waite was born on November 29, 1816, at [[Lyme, Connecticut]], the son of [[Henry Matson Waite (judge)|Henry Matson Waite]], an attorney, and his wife Maria Selden. His father later was appointed as a judge of the Superior Court and associate judge of the [[Connecticut Supreme Court|Supreme Court of Connecticut]], serving 1834–1854; and appointed as chief justice of the latter from 1854 to 1857. Morrison had a brother Richard, with whom he later practiced law.<ref>{{harvnb|Kens|Johnson|2012}} p.16</ref> His ancestors hailed from England and were New Englanders.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZVQAAAAYAAJ&q=waite%20england | title=Family Histories and Genealogies | via=www.google.com | publisher=Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor | year=1892 | first1= Edward | last1=Elbridge | first2=Evelyn | last2=McCurdy}}</ref>

Waite attended [[Bacon Academy]] in [[Colchester, Connecticut]], where one of his classmates was [[Lyman Trumbull]]. He graduated from [[Yale College]] in 1837, the same class that included [[Samuel J. Tilden]], the 1876 Democratic presidential nominee. As a student at Yale, Waite became a member of the [[Skull and Bones]] and [[Brothers in Unity]] societies,<ref>*{{cite web|url=http://area907.info/911/index.php?Bonesmen2|title=Bonesmen 1833–1899|publisher=Fleshing Out Skull and Bones|access-date=March 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811190506/http://area907.info/911/index.php?Bonesmen2|archive-date=August 11, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] society in 1837.<ref>[http://www.pbk.org/userfiles/file/Famous%20Members/PBKSupremeCourtJustices.pdf "Supreme Court Justices Who Are Phi Beta Kappa Members"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928082723/http://www.pbk.org/userfiles/file/Famous%20Members/PBKSupremeCourtJustices.pdf |date=September 28, 2011 }}, Phi Beta Kappa website, accessed October 4, 2009</ref> Shortly after graduating, Waite became a law clerk for his father in 1837.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I_f6Oo9H3YsC&q=Morrison+Waite&pg=PA503|title=The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court|last=Shultz|first=David|date=2005|publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]]|isbn=9780816067398|pages=503|language=en}}</ref>

Soon afterward Waite moved to [[Maumee, Ohio]], where he [[reading law|read law]] in the office of Samuel L. Young. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1839, and went into practice with Young. The law firm became prominent in business and property law.<ref name=":0">{{Harvnb|Kens|Johnson|2012}} p. 17</ref> Waite was elected mayor of Maumee, and served from 1846 to 1847.