In 1843 John was a "star", laying the cornerstone for the first professional one of these in the U.S., on Mt. Adams
... who had given moneys to establish this first American Observatory, the 
need to... [DOC] [TLE] Cultures In Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in ... [PAR] One of these men was Benjamin F. Morris, who by 1841 was presiding over a 
mission in ... of Revolutionary War rabble-rouser and second U.S. president John 
Adams.