It’s another theme week on the Wiki Corner! Since the 4th of July is this Friday, we’re doing a theme week on Founding Fathers…but not the ones you know! This week, we’re talking about Four Forgotten Founding Fathers, starting off with Gouverneur Morris. He signed both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. But Morris has been called the “Penman of the Constitution” because he wrote the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and some of the most famous words in American history, “We the People of the United States”. Born in what is now New York City but a delegate from Pennsylvania, Morris gave 173 speeches at the Constitutional Convention – more than any other delegate! Afterward, Morris was part of a commission tasked with planning for the growth of New York City. The commission came up with Manhattan’s street grid system of 12 parallel avenues intersected by 155 streets. He was also the chair of the Erie Canal Commission that plotted the waterway and provided a huge economic boost to New York State. Morris died in 1816 at the age of 64. The town of Gouverneur and Village of Morristown in St. Lawrence County are both named in his honor. Learn more in the audio below!