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costing twenty thousand dollars, to which everyone was invited, and where a free gospel was dispensed. Other tabernacles were built for Mr. Moody in Boston, New York, Baltimore, Cleveland and many other cities, and for years the work of evangelization was carried on in the large centres of population, crowds filling these immense auditoriums to listen to the words of Mr. Moody, and the singing of his co- worker, the well-known Ira D. Sankey.
Mr. Moody has been a great benefactor to his native town. He has established a flourishing school for girls, with all neces- sary buildings, including a fine library edifice. There are nearly four hundred pupils, representing all parts of the world, and the expenses are merely nominal. Op- posite this seminary, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, is the Mount Her- mon School for Boys, with about the same number of pupils, and conducted on very much the same plan. A thorough Chris- tian education for boys and girls, and a training that will fit them for the duties of life- this is the plan of his educational efforts.
Mr. Moody was married, August 28, 1862, to Emma Revelle. Of this union were three children.
MOODY, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Henry L. and Melissa N. (Emerson) Moody, was born in Newbury, Essex county, De- cember 23, 1853.
He was educated in the common schools of Danvers and Salem, Phillips Academy, Andover, and Harvard College, graduating from the latter in the class of 1876. He then took a law course in Harvard law school, studied law with Richard H. Dana, and was admitted to the bar in 1878.
Mr. Moody, while being closely identified with the interests of the Republican party, has been too busily engaged in the practice of his profession to admit of his accepting many of the positions of trust for which he has been prominently mentioned.
He was a member of the Haverhill school board, and is at present city solicitor, a position which he has held for the past two years.
Though comparatively young in years, Mr. Moody has attained that prominence in his chosen profession which entitles him to just recognition among the leading at- torneys of Essex county. He enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and commands a prominent position professionally in the city of his adoption.
He favors only those methods in political work that are honorable, and while disdain-
ing political preference or undue promi- nence, he has always been an earnest worker in advancing the interests of the Republican party.
Mr. Moody is unmarried.
MOORE, HENRY M., son of Joseph A. and Abigail (Mead) Moore, was born in North Brookfield, Worcester county, Janu- ary 17, 1829.
He secured a common and high school education, and worked on his father's farm until he began his business career in 1853, as clerk for James W. Lee & Co., wholesale hatters, Boston.
In 1858 he went into the same business for himself, under the firm name of Moore, Smith & Co., which has become one of the leading houses in that line in the country ; the organization never having been changed except by the admission from time to time of three junior salesmen who had earned their promotion.
Mr. Moore was married in Thompson, Conn., in 1849, to Mary A., daughter of Leander M. and Gratia (Knapp) Earle. Of this union are six children : Abbie M., Mary G., Emma M., Carrie Mead, Harrie, and Henry Sylvester Moore.
Mr. Moore is a deacon and the chairman of the parish committee of the Franklin Street Congregational church, Somerville, where he resides ; was superintendent of its Sunday-school for some years ; has been a member of the Somerville school board thirteen years ; chairinan of the Massachusetts state Sunday-school com- mittee ; chairman of the state committee of the Massachusetts Young Men's Chris- tian Association ; and a member of the international committee, Y. M. C. A.
He is president of the Boston Hatters' Association ; trustee of the school of Christian Workers, Springfield ; trustee of the Mt. Hermon school, and also of the Northfield Seminary, both under the pat- ronage of D. L. Moody ; director in the Somerville Electric Light Company, and in the Standard Cordage Company, Boston.
Deeply interested in Christian work, he gives a great deal of time to the Sunday- school, and is a leader in the affairs of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a great admirer of Mr. Moody and his methods of spiritual work, and has traveled extensively with him. Mr. Moore's enthu- siasm and reputation are not confined to the bounds of his parish, but his voice is heard, and influence prayerfully given in other communities which have learned to respect his fidelity, and recognize his ability in religious training.
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MOORE, IRA LORISTON, the eldest son of Ira and Mary Gordon (Brown) Moore, was born in Candia, Rockingham county, N. H., November 24, 1824. He is descended on his father's side from General Moore, one of Washington's generals, and on his mother's side he traces his lineage back to the Browns, linen merchants of London, England, who came to this country in 1637, and settled at Hampton, New Hampshire.
In 1840 he went to. Lowell, and after attending the public schools, he fitted for college under the late Hon. Harvey Jewell and the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Mann. He entered Amherst College in 1847. After leaving college he studied medicine with Dr. John Wheelock Graves of Lowell, and entering the Jefferson Medical College at Philadel- phia, was graduated at the head of his class of two hundred and twenty-seven.
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After graduating he went into co-part- nership with Dr. Graves, and after a year or more went into business for himself, and by close attention and remarkable skill in his profession, he soon attained a practice equal to that of any physician in Lowell. Dr. Moore was particularly successful in the treatment of typhoid fever, cholera, cholera infantum, cases of poisoning, and midwifery.
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In 1856 Dr. Moore was elected a repre- sentative to the Legislature from Lowell, being the first Republican who was elected in Middlesex county, who had not been a member of the American party. In 1858 he received the nomination of state senator, but was defeated in the election by Gen- eral B. F. Butler, by a small vote. He was twice elected director of the Lowell public library.
In 1860 Dr. Moore removed to Boston, where for ten years he practiced his profes- sion. He has been twice a delegate to the national medical convention. In 1861 he was elected a member of the school com- mittee of Boston for three years.
In 1865, '66, '70, and '71 Dr. Moore was elected from Boston as a representative to the Legislature. While in the Legislature in 1857 from Lowell, Dr. Moore was the chief advocate of the filling of the Back Bay district of the city of Boston. The magnificent collection of buildings, both public and private, now standing upon that territory, at an assessed valuation of over one hundred million dollars, attests the wis- dom and far-sighted public spirit of those to whom the city of Boston is indebted for one of the choicest portions of her domains.
In 1868 Dr. Moore gave up the practice of his profession and embarked in speculation in real estate, and for twenty years he has been one of a few of the largest operators in vacant land in the city of Boston.
January 1, 1873, Dr. Moore married Charlotte Maria, daughter of the late Daniel and Maria Marble (Martin) Chamberlin, and the issue of the marriage were two children : Charlotte Lillian and Daniel Loriston Moore, the latter dying at the age of two years. Mrs. Moore died September 9, 1887. At the death of her father, which took place in 1879, Dr. Moore was appointed, under the will, chairman of the executors and trustees of the Chamberlin estate, and with the other trustees soon decided to demolish the old Adams House, and to erect the present magnificent hotel now standing on the old site.
Dr. Moore has been an active member of the Odd Fellows for nearly thirty years, and during that time has filled all of the highest offices, both in the lodge and in the encampment. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Boston common council.
He has retired from active business, ex- cept to look after his own, and the trust estates of which he has charge. He has ever been a man positive in the expression of his opinion, and has displayed great
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executive ability in the many positions of honor and trust to which he has been called.
MORRISON, JOHN H., son of John and Bridget (McCaffrey) Morrison, was born in Westford, Middlesex county, De- cember 23, 1856.
He passed through the public schools of Westford and Lowell, Westford Academy and Lowell high school, there fitting for Harvard College. He entered Harvard in 1874, but owing to sickness was unable to complete the course ; entered the Harvard law school, and was graduated in the class
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of 1878 ; read law with William H. An- derson, of Lowell; was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, October, 1879, and immediately began practice on his own account.
Mr. Morrison was married in Lowell, June 30, 1884, to Margaret L., daughter of James and Esther (Quade) Owen. They have no children.
Mr. Morrison has been president of nearly all the Catholic organizations in the city, including the Irish National League ; was a delegate to Philadelphia at the time of the national convention of the Irish National League ; was elected to the Lowell school board when twenty-one years of age; elected to the House of
Representatives at the age of twenty-two years, and to the Senate at twenty-four.
He was the first Democrat appointed as chairman of the probate and chancery com- mittee on the part of the Senate. He has been for several years a member of the Democratic state central committee. He has been fortunate in never having been defeated for any office for which he has been nominated. He enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and is a favorite of the young Democracy.
MORSE, ASA PORTER, son of Daniel and Sarah (Morse) Morse, was born in Haverhill, Grafton county, N. H., Septem- ber 1, 1818.
He is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Anthony Morse, who came from Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, and settled in Newbury, in 1635. His father, Daniel Morse, was the son of Dan- iel and Miriam (Hoyt) Morse, who was born in Newbury, and afterwards removed to Amesbury, and finally settled at Bridge- water, N. H., and died there February 25, 1826; the son of Benjamin and Marga- ret (Bartlett) Morse, of Newbury and Amesbury, about 1730 ; the son of Wil- liam and Sarah (Merrill) Morse of New- bury ; the son of Benjamin and Ruth (Sawyer) Morse of Newbury ; the son of Anthony Morse, the emigrant settler. His mother, the daughter of Benjamin and Ra- chel (Webster) Morse, was born October 8, 1777, in Concord, N. H., and died Jan- uary 22, 1834.
Mr. Morse came to Boston in 1840, then about twenty years of age, and began business life as book-keeper in the house of Hayward & Morse, who were engaged in the Provincial and West India trade. In a few years he had accumulated suffi- cient capital to begin business for himself, supplying parties in the West Indies with goods for their plantations, and later on manufacturing staves for shipment to Cadiz and other ports, also shooks for the West Indies, etc., in which he employed a large number of men, and in the conduct of which he was eminently successful. In 1845 he removed to Cambridge, where he has ever since resided, becoming largely interested in real estate operations and in building.
For many years he has been connected with the banks of Cambridge as director and trustee; also director of the Cambridge Hospital, the Cambridge Fire Insurance Company, and other local institutions. He has been a member of the school board fif- teen years, and for the past six years presi-
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dent of the Cambridgeport National Bank. He has accepted positions of public trust only at the earnest solicitation of his fellow-citizens.
He was alderman in 1866, and a member of the House of Representatives in 1869 and '73, holding places on important com- mittees, and declining a re-election. In 1879 he was a member of the state Senate,
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serving as chairman on the joint committee on prisons, and also on the committee on claims. The committee on prisons were called upon to revise the entire system of prison supervision - a very important and difficult duty. Under the lead of Mr. Morse a new system was perfected, which has proved complete and satisfactory, and the law of 1879 is acknowledged to be a superior piece of legislation. His ability in this direction made him chairman of the special committee on convict law, which investigated that subject in the summer and fall of 1879. The report was ex- haustive and valuable, and settled many questions which had before been in con- troversy.
Mr. Morse was re-elected to the Senate in 1880 by an unusual majority ; again placed at the head of the committee on prisons, and also on the committee on edu- cation and on expenditures. The prison
committee were successful, inaugurating many measures of prison reform, there having been no important legislation re- garding prisons for nearly fifty years. The establishment of a reformatory for men was the only important measure proposed which failed. Its success in passing the Senate was due largely to the efforts of Mr. Morse.
Though not a leader in debate, Mr. Morse is an effective speaker, concise and convincing in the presentation of a sub- ject. In enterprises for the advancement of the interests of the city, and in all pub- lic services, he has proved himself to be the very best type of the Massachusetts citizen.
Mr. Morse was married July 13, 1845, to Dorcas Louisa, daughter of Thomas W. and Elizabeth (Wells, widow) Short. Mrs. Morse died in 1864. Of this union were three children : Mary Louisa (Mrs. Charles W. Jones), Velma Maria, and Ar- thur Porter Morse (deceased).
MORSE, BUSHROD, son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) Morse, was born in Sharon, Norfolk county, August 24, 1837.
Mr. Morse's parents were the descend- ants of a long line of New England ances- try which counted on its roll many a name known to fame. Among them were Pro- fessor Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the magnetic telegraph ; James Kent, Chief Justice and renowned commentator ; Dr. Franklin, Fisher Ames, General Glover, Edward Everett, and Charlotte Cushman.
He attended the public schools of his native town ; fitted for college in Provi- dence Conference Seminary, and Pierce Academy, Middleborough, during the years 1853, '54, '55 and '56 ; entered Amherst College, September, 1856, without condi- tion, and left during the first year, being obliged to abandon the remainder of his collegiate course on account of ill health.
He chose the profession of law, and studied in North Easton and Boston ; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1864, and has practiced law in Boston ever since, having, however, always retained his residence in his native town on the old Morse homestead, near Lake Massapoag, a large and picturesque estate which has descended to him and his brothers from their great grandfather, Gilead Morse, an English soldier under General Wolfe, who purchased it on his return from the French war in 1764.
In politics Mr. Morse is a pronounced Democrat, and has performed conspicuous service for his party. When questions of
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the public good, simply, are at issue, party lines fail to hedge him in or control his action.
Mr. Morse has been chairman of the Sharon school board; was a member of the House of Representatives in 1870, '83 and '84, serving on important committees ; was chairman of the committee on probate and chancery 1884 ; has been a member of the Democratic state central committee; is now, and has been for ten years, chairman of the Norfolk county Democratic committee ; was a presidential elector in 1884, and a can- didate for same in 1888 ; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at Cin- cinnati in 1880, which nominated General Hancock for president ; was a candidate for Congress in the 2d district against John D. Long in 1886 ; carried Norfolk county by 233 majority, and was defeated in the dis- trict by only 1,822 votes. He has been justice of the peace since 1864, when he was first appointed by Governor Andrew.
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Mr. Morse taught school in his early manhood for several years, thus earning money wherewith to meet his expenses while pursuing his preparatory studies. He is now devoted to the legal profession, an incessant worker, a good lawyer, a man of strict integrity and unflinching determina- tion. While in the Legislature he always
supported and ably advocated the passage of all measures calculated to advance the best interests of the working classes, and his addresses on the subject of tariff reform have attracted attention and been published in the leading newspapers of the country.
Mr. Morse was married in Windsor, Nova Scotia, September 29, 1871, to Gertie S., daughter of James and Sarah A. (Loomer) Gertridge, who died in Boston, February 5, 1879.
MORSE, CHARLES D., son of Leonard and Remember (Meacham) Morse, was born in Woodstock, Windham county, Conn., November 1, 1827.
His education was limited to the meagre advantages offered in the public schools of his native town.
In 1850 he came to Millbury, and in 1852 entered into partnership with T. S. Fullam, under the firm name of Fullam, Morse & Co., for the manufacture of sashes, blinds and doors, and ornamental house-furnish- ings. In 1854 the firm was changed to Armsby & Morse, and in 1871, Mr. Morse having purchased the interest of his part- ner, to C. D. Morse & Co., which has re- mained to the present time.
Mr. Morse was married in Worcester, October 27, 1864, to Anna E., daughter of Fitzroy and Frances G. (Blake) Willard. Of this union were four children : Frances W., Charles H., Anna L., and Mary L. Morse.
Mr. Morse was elected a director in the Millbury National Bank in 1863, and in 1879 was made president, which office he now holds. He is president of the Mill- bury Electric Company, also vice-president of the Millbury Savings Bank and of the Worcester Mechanics' Exchange. He has held all the prominent town offices, includ- ing that of assessor and selectman. Mr. Morse was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1873.
MORSE, CHARLES FRANCIS, son of Lyman and Lydia (Brigham) Morse, was born in Framingham, Middlesex county, January 16, 1832. He was educated in the common schools.
His commencement in business was as book-seller, stationer, and dealer in fancy- goods and patent medicines. This busi- ness he continued from 1857 to '60, in Marlborough.
At the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Morse enlisted in company F, 13th Massa- chusetts volunteers, and as 2d and Ist lieutenant, served from July 16, 1861, to August 30, 1862. He was captain and
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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, 1865, 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 1869 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 1877. This paper, while published in one of the interior towns of the State, has, under the peculiar- ly able and versatile management of the editor, achieved a recognized position of originality and power outside the confines of Marlborough. Mr. Morsc wields an intelligent, caustic pen - a foe to pretense and hypocrisy, a friend to truth and genuine reform.
Mr. Morsc 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 and manager, which he attained in 1872, and now holds.
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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 1887, '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 proprictor.
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 1887; and in
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'88, while councilor, was elected to repre- sent his congressional district as the suc- cessor of Governor Long in the 5Ist Con- gress, by a plurality of 3,684 votes.
He is a leader in the cause of temperance, on which subject he has made hundreds of addresses during the last decade. He is a philanthropist, and a warm supporter of every genuine effort for social reform. He is interested in all matters pertaining to the public school question, and participated in the great meeting held in Tremont Temple, Boston, July 29, 1888, earnestly pleading for our free public educational institutions, and against any movement looking toward
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the establishment of sectarian schools. Mr. Morse gave his town the ground for the memorial hall, in memory of those who fell in the war for the Union, and has shown his public spirit in every movement for the advancement of his chosen residence.
Mr. Morse was married January 1, 1868, to Felicia, daughter of Samuel A. Vining, of Holbrook. Of this union are three chil- dren living : Abner, Samuel, and Benjamin.
MORSE, GODFREY, was born at Wach- enheim, Bavaria, May 19, 1846, and came to this country while a lad of tender years, and immediately entered upon a thorough course of public school instruction. He was a brilliant scholar, and completed full
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courses at the Brimmer grammar, the Eng- lish high, and the public Latin schools. He exhibited quite an early proclivity for the law, and his tastes in this direction were carefully cultivated. After concluding his studies in the public schools, he was sent to Harvard College, where he graduated in 1870, receiving the degree of A. B. He then entered the Harvard law school, graduating as LL. B. in 1872. Mr. Morse immediately began practice. As assistant counsel for the United States in the court of commissioners of the Alabama claims, in 1882, '83, and '84, he proved himself fully equipped for the most complicated of legal controversies ; and as attorney for Jordan, Marsh & Co., in the famous cloak- house cases in New York, he earned special honors. Mr. Morse has an extensive prac- tice in mercantile cases ; and among the special concerns whom he represents are the American Surety Company, the Brush Electric Lighting Company, and many of the large mercantile firms of Boston and New York.
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