Inventors . Franklin, erected in Printing-house Square inNew York. He died, after a short illness, onApril 2, 1872, and was buried in GreenwoodCemeterv. On the day of the funeral, April 5th,every telegraph office in the country was drapedin mourning. Professor Morse was twice married. His firstwife died in 1825. In 1848 he married SarahElizabeth Griswold, of Poughkeepsie, who stilllives. By the first marriage there were threechildren, one of whom, a son, survives. By thesecond marriage there were four children, threeof whom are alive—a daughter and two Leila Morse, the daughter, was
Inventors . Franklin, erected in Printing-house Square inNew York. He died, after a short illness, onApril 2, 1872, and was buried in GreenwoodCemeterv. On the day of the funeral, April 5th,every telegraph office in the country was drapedin mourning. Professor Morse was twice married. His firstwife died in 1825. In 1848 he married SarahElizabeth Griswold, of Poughkeepsie, who stilllives. By the first marriage there were threechildren, one of whom, a son, survives. By thesecond marriage there were four children, threeof whom are alive—a daughter and two Leila Morse, the daughter, was married in1885 to Herr Franz Rummel, the eminent last years of his life were eminently peacefuland happy. In the summer he lived at a placecalled Locust Grove, on the banks of the Hudson,near Poughkeepsie, and in the winter in a houseat No. 5 ^Yest Twenty-second Street, a few doorswest of Fifth Avenue. In recent years a marbletablet has been affixed to the front of the house,suitably No. 5 West Twenty-second Street. New York, where Morse Lived for Many Years and Died. 152 INVENTORS Morses life in the country was very simple andquiet. His hour of rising was half-past sixoclock in the morning, and he was in his libraryalone until breakfast, at eight. He loved to hearthe birds in their native songs, and he could dis-tinguish the notes of each species, and wouldspeak of the quality of their respective spent most of the clay in reading and writ-ing, rarely taking exercise, except walking inhis garden to visit his graperies, in which hetook special pride, or to the stable to see if hishorses were well cared for. He did not ricle outregularly with his family, preferring the reposeof his own grounds and the labors of his when he walked or rode in the country, hewas constantly disposed to speak of the beautyand glory around him, as revealing to his mindthe beneficence, wisdom, and power of the infiniteCreator, wrho had made all these things f
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