. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ver hiddenhis light under abushel. On ev e r ysubject of popularinterest he has helddecided opin ions,and their expressionhas alwa y s beenclear and architect of hisown fortune, — anda most respectableone it is, — has risen bydint of perseveringtoil from poverty toaffluence. Sa m u e 1Smiles has not givena more striking ex-ample of Morse is de-scended from one ofthe oldest New Eng-land families, thefounder of whi c hsettl
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ver hiddenhis light under abushel. On ev e r ysubject of popularinterest he has helddecided opin ions,and their expressionhas alwa y s beenclear and architect of hisown fortune, — anda most respectableone it is, — has risen bydint of perseveringtoil from poverty toaffluence. Sa m u e 1Smiles has not givena more striking ex-ample of Morse is de-scended from one ofthe oldest New Eng-land families, thefounder of whi c hsettled at Dedhamin 1637. In thenext century thefamily went ^Vest, and at South Bend, Ind., in 1841, Mr. Morse was born,the son of a clergyman, who, eleven years later, re-turned to Massachusetts. In the public schools ofSherborn, Holliston, at the Boylston School in Boston,and at Onondaga Academy in New York State, youngElijah was educated. Neither as boy nor as youth washe ever an idler. Alone in a little building at Sharon,Mass., he began, during his school vacations, to experi-ment and manufacture the stove polish which has since. ELIJAH A. MORSE made his fortune. In his nineteenth year he enlistedas private in the Fourth Massachusetts Infantry, wasthree months with General Butler, in \irginia, and withGeneral Banks nine months in Louisiana. Returningfrom the war, he went into business with his brotherand established at Canton what has grown to be a largeindustry, being now the sole proprietor. He waselected to the lower House of the Massachusetts Legis-lature in 1876, and later served two terms in the State Senate, followed bytwo years in the Ex-ecutive Council. Assenator, Mr. Morsesecu red radicalamendments to thelaws for the protec-tion of children andfor the punishmentof crimes agai n s tjfl| chastity. He was I^P I also the chamijion of all wise labor leg-islation and an influ-ential friend of theveterans. In 18S8he was elected toCongress, an d i n1890, in the face offor
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