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 428 MORSE. MORSE. commissary of subsistence, United States volunteers, from August 30, 1862, to May, 1865. Captain Morse was on duty at Hagers- town, Md., from October, 1861, to April, 1862, as depot commissary of subsistence, and provost marshal. After the retreat of General Banks from the Shenandoah Val- ley, he was detailed by the quartermaster department to collect all the stores scat- tered through the valley. He was depot quartermaster at Martinsburgh, W. Va., from June to August, 1862 ; depot commis- sary of subsistence at Chicago from June, 1864, to March, 1865 ; appointed inspec- tor of subsistence department for all the armies operating against Richmond in April, 1S65, but declined on account of disabilities, and tendered his resignation, which was accepted in May, 1865. He was commander of Post 43, G. A. R., from 1867 to '69. Mr. Morse was married in Woonsocket, R. I., October 16, 1855, to Angeline H., daughter of Lambert and Emily F. (Dick- inson) Bigelow. Of this union are two children : Edith F. and Faith E. Morse, the former married and living in Marl- borough, and the latter studying music in Italy. After the war Mr. Morse was engaged in the grocery and provision business, and from 1S69 to '73 was in Troy, N. Y., and New York City. His present calling is editor of the " Marlborough Times," which position he has held since he became its owner and controlling spirit in 1S77. This paper, while published in one of the interior towns of the State, has, under the peculiar- lv able and versatile management of the editor, achieved a recognized position of originality and power outside the confines of Marlborough. Mr. Morse wields an intelligent, caustic pen — a foe to pretense and hypocrisy, a friend to truth and genuine reform. Mr. Morse has been deputy sheriff for Middlesex county since 1873, and also an auctioneer and real estate agent in the town of Marlborough, where he resides. MORSE, Charles William, son of Charles C. and Sarah (Jackman) Morse, was born in Haverhill, Essex county, April 21, 1851. He was educated in the common schools. When sixteen years old he entered the employ of the Haverhill Aqueduct Com- pany, as boy, and gradually rose from this position to that of superintendent anil manager, which he attained in 1872, and now holds. Mr. Morse has always been prominently identified with the politics of his city and state, and the high esteem in which he is held is proven by the fact that although an ardent Democrat, he has been repeat- edly elected to office from the strongest Republican districts of Haverhill. Mr. Morse has been chairman of the Democratic city committee since 1874 ; was a member of the common council 1877, '78 and '79, and its president the last two years. He was a member of the board of aldermen 1880 ; member of the school board from 1881 to '87 ; member of the board of assessors 1S87, '88, and '89 ; is treasurer and general manager of the Hav- erhill Electric Company ; treasurer of the Haverhill Steamboat Company ; director in the Haverhill Iron Works, the Merri- mac Valley Steamboat Company, and the Haverhill board of trade. Mr. Morse was married in New Market, N. H., September, 1885, to Mary S., daughter of George A. and Abby (Shack- ford) Bennett. They have one child : Kate N. Morse. MORSE, ELIJAH ADAMS, son of Abner and Hannah Peck Morse, was born May 25, 1841, in South Bend, St. Joseph county, Ind. In early boyhood he removed to Massachusetts, the home of his ancestors, and has there passed the greater portion of his life. He belongs to an old New Eng- land family, whose founder, Samuel Morse, settled at Dedham in 1637. His father (Abner) was a clergyman, a gentleman of refinement and culture. Mr. Morse's middle name, "Adams," comes from the marriage of Joseph Morse, of Sherborn, with Prudence Adams, of Braintree, now Quincy, and he is a distant relative of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams. Beginning his education in the public schools of Sherborn and Holliston, he attended later the well-known Boylston school in Boston, and Onondaga Academy in New York State. He had just left school when the civil war broke out, and at nineteen he enlisted and went to the front as a private in com- pany A, 4th Massachusetts infantry. On leaving the army, Mr. Morse joined with his brother in establishing what have grown to be the extensive works for the manufac- ture of the " Rising Sun Stove Polish," in Canton, of which business house he is now the sole proprietor. Mr. Morse has served in the House of Representatives ; been twice elected to the state Senate ; was elected a member of Governor Ames's council in 1S87 ; and in