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Morse, Elijah Adams

soldier, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born May 25, 1841, in South Bend, Ind. In 1876 he entered Bend, Ind.

In 1876 he entered public life as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and since that time has served in the senate, the governor's council, and has four times been elected a member of congress. He served as a soldier during the civil war; for three months under Gen. Butler in Virginia; one year as a corporal under Gen. Banks in Louisiana; and was taken prisoner at the capture of Brashear City, La. He is a successful business man and extensive manufacturer; and is the proprietor of the Rising Sun Black Lead works of Canton, Mass., manufacturers of the famous Rising Sun stove polish. His service in the United States house of representatives was in the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican, declining the re-election to the fifty-fifth.