Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . after graduation he was admitted to theSuffolk bar. Entering at once upon the jiractice ofhis profession in Boston (in 1852), he formed apartnershi]) with Ambrose A. Ranney, under thefirm name of Ranney & Morse. Ihis relation con-tinued for many years, and the firm became one ofthe most prominent in the State. Mr. Morse haslong enjoyed a lucrative practice. His business islargely in the courts, as senior counsel in the trial ofcauses. He has decli
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . after graduation he was admitted to theSuffolk bar. Entering at once upon the jiractice ofhis profession in Boston (in 1852), he formed apartnershi]) with Ambrose A. Ranney, under thefirm name of Ranney & Morse. Ihis relation con-tinued for many years, and the firm became one ofthe most prominent in the State. Mr. Morse haslong enjoyed a lucrative practice. His business islargely in the courts, as senior counsel in the trial ofcauses. He has declined to accept public office, witha single exception, — that of common councilman in1863,— his entire time and strength being given tohis profession. He has for many years been a mem-ber of the ()1(1 South Church. He was married inBoston Nov. 18, 1851, to Sarah, daughter of DanielDeshon : they have two children : Fannie Deshonand Edward Oilman Morse. Morse, RANDALr, O., son of Oliver and Nancy(Pitcher) Morse, was born in Friendship, Me.,Oct. 6, 1825 ; died in Boston April 13, 1891. Hisfather, also a native of Friendship, born in 1791,. was of French descent, the fomily coming fromNormandy; and his mother was of English de- scent. He obtained his general education in thecountry school, which he attended part of eachsummer and winter through his boyhood; and inearly manhood he became a fine worked hard on the farm, lived in a large,roomy house, and had a pleasant home-life until hewas eighteen, when he went to sea. He followeda seafaring life steadily from that time until 1869,during the twenty-six years visiting all the principalseaports of his own country and Europe, SouthAmerican ports, Australia, and India. In 1845 hewas captain of the Mary and .Adeline, later on ofthe Chimborazo, and in 1858 of the Mary In 1859 he took the Mary E. Camp-bell up the Thames to London, the largest sailing-ship at that day that had ever been up the lay in
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