Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Morse, Fremont January 19, 1857 - 
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Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

California and Californians, Pages 33-34

	FREMONT MORSE, scientist, whose many years of service with the 
Government made him familiar with nearly all portions of the Pacific Coast and 
the Pacific Islands, has his home in Berkeley.  He was born at Manchester, 
Massachusetts, January 19, 1857, son of Joseph Haskell and Mary Elizabeth 
(Girdler) Morse.
	Mr. Morse is a graduate of the University of California, of the class 
of 1879, and from that date until he was retired, March 1, 1924, was with the 
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.  During 1882-83 he was astronomer for 
an expedition to Southeastern Alaska, and again did astronomical work in 
Alaska from 1891 to 1898.  He was employed in general surveys in the Pacific 
States and Alaska until 1902.  He was observer Trans-Pacific Longitude, San 
Francisco-Manila, 1903-04, and was employed in an Alaskan boundary survey from 
1904 to 1913.  During 1914-15 he was engaged in astronomical work on the 
Atlantic Coast and in general surveys.  During 1916-18 he was director of 
coast surveys at Manila.  From 1919 until his retirement Mr. Morse was 
inspector of the San Francisco Field Station.
	He was honored with the office of president in 1910 of the 
Astronomical Society of the Pacific.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Pi 
Gamma Mu, Phi Delta Theta, member of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, is a Republican and a member of the Congregational 
Church.
	On April 4, 1888, he married Miss Mary Walker Eastman.  Mrs. Morse was 
born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in 1860, daughter of Artemus S. and Hannah 
(Bean) Eastman.  Her father was a New Hampshire merchant.  Mrs. Morse was 
educated in the East and was eighteen years of age when she came to 
California, with a married sister, and settled at San Rafael, and in 1880 
moved to San Francisco.  She was secretary of the Insurance Combine until her 
marriage in 1888.  Mr. and Mrs. Morse had three children:  Henry Eastman 
Morse, who is married, and his three children are Henry E., Jr., Alida Morse 
and John Girdler Morse.  Alice Fremont Morse is the wife of O. C. Hansen, of 
San Francisco, and has two children, Benjamin Morse Hansen and Christine.  
Isita Girdler Morse is Mrs. E. W. Foote, of Tokio, Japan.
	After their marriage Mrs. and Mrs. Morse lived in San Francisco until 
they removed to Berkeley in 1911.  In Berkeley she took a prominent part in 
club and social life, being a member of the Berkeley Woman’s City Club, the 
Sequoia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.  Mrs. Morse died at her 
home in Berkeley February 5, 1931.


Additional Comments:
California and Californians, Volume IV, Edited by Rockwell D. Hunt, A.M., 
Ph.D., Assisted By An Advisory Board, The Spanish Period, By Nellie Van de 
Grift Sanchez, The American Period, By Rockwell D. Hunt, California Biography, 
By a Special Staff of Writers, Issued in Four Volumes, The Lewis Publishing 
Company, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, 1932.

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