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Morse, David Appleton

physician, journalist, was born Dec. 12, 1840, in Ellsworth, Ohio. In 1877 he was called to Columbus, Ohio, where he has since held the professorship of nervous disorders and insanity in Starling Medical college and the post of physician to Columbus Hospital for the Insane. He is editor of the department of nervous disorders and insanity in the Lancet and Observer.

Morse, Edward Sylvester

physician, author, was born June 18, 1838, in Portland, Maine. He is an eminent biologist of Salem, Mass., who has published First Book on Zoölogy; Japanese Homes, and many scientific papers.

Morse, Frank Eugene

musician, composer, born Nov. 10, 1856, in Bradford, Mass. For many years he was a teacher of vocal music in the Conservatory and the Wellesley College School of Music. He is the author of a number of compositions; and the compiler and publisher of the Musician's Calendar. was

Morse, Harmon Northrup

chemist, author, was born Oct. 15, 1848, in Cambridge, Vt. In 1876 he became associate professor of chemistry and sub-director of the chemical laboratory at Johns Hopkins. His papers number about twenty-five, and have appeared in the American Chemical Journal.

Morse, Henry Dutton

diamondcutter, inventor, was born April 20, 1826, in Boston, Mass. In 1869 he established his fame as a diamond-cutter by the skill that he displayed in the treatment of a fifty-carat stone found in Manchester, nearly opposite Richmond, Va. He invented a cutting and polishing machine, which reduced in a great measure the tediousness and inaccuracy of the old manual process. He died Jan. 1, 1888, in Jamaica Plains, Mass.

Morse, Isaac Edwards

lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1809, in Attakapas, La. He was a representative from Louisiana in the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first congresses; and was subsequently attorney-general of Louisiana. He died Feb. 11, 1866, in New Orleans, La.

Morse, James Herbert

educator, poet, was born in 1841, in Massachusetts.

He is an educator and poet of New York city; and the author of Summer Haven Songs.

Morse, John Torrey

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 9, 1840, in Boston , Mass. He is a lawyer of Boston ; and the author of Lives of Hamilton, J. Q. , J. Q.

Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lincoln, Franklin; Banks and Banking; Arbitration and Award; and Famous Trials. con-

Morse, Leopold

merchant, gressman, was born Aug. 15, 1831, in Bavaria. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.

MORSE, MRS. LUCY [GIBBONS], author, was born in 1839 in New York. She is a novelist of New York city; and the ; and the author of Rachel Stanwood, a Story ; and The Chezzles, a Story of Young People .

Morse, O. A

lawyer, congressman, was born March 26, 1815, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from New York.

Morse, Richard Cary

journalist, was born June 18, 1795, in Charlestown, Mass. He, with his brother Sidney , established the New York Observer, and for , and for thirty-five years was its proprietor and associate editor. He died Sept. 23, 1868, 23, 1868, in Germany.

Morse, Sidney Edwards

journalist, geographer, author, was born Feb. 7, 1794, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a journalist and geographer of New York city; and the author of System of Modern Geography; and Premium Questions on Slavery. With a younger brother he founded the New York Observer in 1823.

He died Dec. 24, 1871, in New York city.