Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . advance the best interests of the working addresses on the subject of tariff reform haveattracted attention and been published in leadingnewspapers of the country. Morse, Elijah A., son of Rev. Abner Morse,was born in South Bend, Ind., May 24, 1841. Hebelongs to an old New England family, whosefounder, Samuel Morse, settled in Dedham as earlyas 1637. In early boyhood he came to Massachu-setts, and here his education was begun in the pu
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . advance the best interests of the working addresses on the subject of tariff reform haveattracted attention and been published in leadingnewspapers of the country. Morse, Elijah A., son of Rev. Abner Morse,was born in South Bend, Ind., May 24, 1841. Hebelongs to an old New England family, whosefounder, Samuel Morse, settled in Dedham as earlyas 1637. In early boyhood he came to Massachu-setts, and here his education was begun in the pub-lic schools of Sherborn. Later he attended theBoylston school here in Boston, and the OnondagaAcademy in New York State. Having just leftschool, at the age of nineteen, when the Civil ^Varbroke out, he enlisted as a private in Company A,Fourth Massachusetts Infantry, and went to the leaving the army, he reentered the business thathe had started as a schoolboy, — the making andvending of stove polish. This business steadily grewand expanded until now his factory in Canton coversfour acres and has a capacity of ten tons a day. ELIJAH A. MORSE. which he has made many speeches. He waselected to the lower house of the Legislature of1876, to the senate of 1886 and 1887, to the execu-tive council and to Congress in 1888 and Morse was married Jan. :, 1868, to MissFelicia, daughter of Samuel A. Yining, of Holbrook :they have three children ; Abner, Samuel, andBenjamin Morse. MiiKSK, (Ieorge W., son of Peter and Mary E.(Randall) Morse, natives of Chester and Nashua, -^ r
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