Morse, Elijah Adams – Morton, George
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.
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, Freeman H
state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1807, in Bath, Maine. He was in the Maine legislature from 1840 to 1844, and also in 1853 and 1856; and was mayor of Bath for three years. He was elected to congress in 1843, serving one term; and was elected a representative to the thirtyfifth congress from Maine; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was a member of the peace congress of 1861; and was appointed by President Lincoln consul at London.
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, Jedidiah
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 23, 1761, in Woodstock, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of New England. He is sometimes styled the Father of American Geography, his being the first school text-books in text-books in America of any importance. He was the He was the author of Elements of Geography ; American Gazetteer; Annals of the American Revolution; Compendious History of New of New England; Geography Made Easy; and ; and American Geography. He died June 9, June 9, 1826, in New Haven, Conn.
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 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 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 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, Samuel Baldwin
educator, clergyman, college president , was born Oct. 26, 1834, in Fayette, Maine. He Maine. He has filled pastorates in the baptist church in Stockton and Oakland, Cal.; and since and since 1887 has been president of California college.
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
inventor, artist, author, was born April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Mass. He found- He founded the National the National Academy of Design in New York, and was its annually elected president for many years. His most wonderful invention, the recording electric telegraph, has been called the greatest triumph which human genius has obtained over space and time.
The first telegraphic message, What hath God wrought, was sent over the wires May 24, 1844, and was dictated by Anna G. Ellis, daughter of the commissioner of patents, who came early in the morning to inform him of the appropriation from congress of thirty thousand dollars for the construction of his first telegraphic line between Baltimore and Washington.
He was the author of Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States; Our Liberties Defended; and Imminent Dangers through Foreign Immigration. He died April 2, 1872, in New York.
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.
Morse, T. Vernette
artist, author, was born in 1854, in Cortland county, N. county, N.
Y. In 1892 he came to Chicago and es- Chicago and established Arts of America, which was so was so successful that two years later he orlater he organized the Central Art association of association of America for the promotion and dispersion of good art among the people.
Morsell, James S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 10, 1775, in Calvert in Calvert county, Md. He served as a volunteer solvolunteer soldier in the war of 1812; and in 1816 was in 1816 was appointed a judge of the United States court for the District of Columbia, and Columbia, and continued in that capacity until 1863. He 1863. He died Jan. 11, 1870, in Prince George county, Md.
Morton, Alexander
inventor, was born March 8, 1820, in Scotland. He be- . He began the manufacture of gold pens in New in New York city during the summer of 1851 between that year and 1860 invented auinvented automatic processes for pointing, tempering, and grinding them. He died Oct. 12, died Oct. 12 , 1869, in New York city.
Morton, Charles
clergyman, author, was born in 1620 in England . He was a puritan clergyman who came to came to New England in 1686, and was minister at Charlestown and vice-president of Harof Harvard college. He was the author of The of The Ark: its Loss and Recovery; and Sysand System of Logic, long a text-book at Harvard. He died April 11, 1698, in Boston, Mass. at
Morton, Charles Adams
soldier, merchant, banker. After leaving school he engaged in the commission and wholeand wholesale grocery business with his brother at St. Louis, with a branch house Memphis, Tenn. At the commencement of hostilities in the spring of 1861 he received autnority from Governor Dick Yates of Illinois, to raise company, which went into camp at Camp Buta ler, and with others formed the thirtysecond Illinois infantry, commanded by Colonel John Logan. In November, 1861, Colonel Morton was detached from his from his regiment and ordered to report to General Sherman for duty as commissary of subsistence. In April, 1863, he was promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy, and assigned to duty as chief of commissary of subsistence, fifteenth army corps, Major-General W. T. Sherman commanding.
Subsequently, upon the return to Washington of General Macfeely, he was assigned to duty as chief C. S. of the army of the Tennessee, and did not leave the army until the winter of 1865. From 1865 to 1871 he 1871 he resided in St. Louis. In the latter year he removed to St. Paul, where he engaged in banking, real estate and commission business until 1880, when he removed to Fargo, and organized the firm of Morton and Company, for the transaction of real estate and commission business. He was also president of the Exchange bank of Fargo from 1888 to 1892.
Morton, George
lawyer, was born June 23, 1859, in Ontario, Canada.
He graduated from the Victoria university; was admitted to the bar at Albany in 1884; and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Ogdensburg, N. Y. He has made his mark as a criminal lawyer, and was one of the counsel to defend Frank defend Frank Conroy, the wife murderer.