. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . on ofWillard and Eliza(G lover) attending thepublic schools of hisnative town, he fittedfor college at theProvidence Confer-ence, Seminary andat Pierce Academy,Middleboro, and en-tered Amherst in1856. Ill-health,howe\er, preventedhim from completinghis college studied law inNorth Easton and inBoston, and in Octo-ber, 1864, was ad-mitted to the Suffolkbar. Though he haspractised in Bostonever since, he hasalways retained hisresidence in
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . on ofWillard and Eliza(G lover) attending thepublic schools of hisnative town, he fittedfor college at theProvidence Confer-ence, Seminary andat Pierce Academy,Middleboro, and en-tered Amherst in1856. Ill-health,howe\er, preventedhim from completinghis college studied law inNorth Easton and inBoston, and in Octo-ber, 1864, was ad-mitted to the Suffolkbar. Though he haspractised in Bostonever since, he hasalways retained hisresidence in Sharon,on the old Morsehomestead, a pic-turesque estate, nearLake Massapoag, which descended to him and his brothers from theirgreat-grandfather, Gilead Morse, an English soldierunder General Wolfe, who purchased it on his returnfrom the French war in 1764. Mr. Morse has been foryears prominent and influential in the political life ofhis town and State. He has been chairman of theSharon School Board ; member of the MassachusettsHouse of Representatives in 1S70, 18S3 and 1884, whenhe served on important committees, being chairman of. BUSHROD MORSE, the Committee on Probate and Chancery in 1884 ; mem-ber of the Democratic State Central Committee ; candi-date for presidential elector in 1884 and 1888 ; delegateto the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati in1880; candidate for Congress in the second district,against John D. Long, in 1886, and carry-ing Norfolk County by 233 majority, and being defeatedin the strong Republican district by less than 2,000votes; again a candidate for Congress in 1890, when he received the highestvote ever cast for aDemocratic candi-date for Congressin his district. In1864 Mr. Morse wasappointed justice ofthe peace by (rover-nor Andrew, and hasheld that office eversince. On May 13,1891, Governor Rus-sell appointed himthe first special jus-tice of the DistrictCourt for SouthernNorfolk. In 1892,much against his in-clinations, he w a
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