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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

REUBEN J. MORSE.

    Reuben J. Morse, whose even-paced energy has brought him far on the high
road to success, is secretary and general manager of the Colorado Portland
Cement Company and by virtue of the latter office has entire charge of the
management of a vast business. He is also identified with a number of other
important corporate interests, all of which contribute to the material
development and upbuilding of the city of Denver. Colorado is proud to number
him among her native sons. He was born in Central City, January 31, 1876, a son
of Edwin H. and Sadie M. (Steffa) Morse, the former a native of Norwich,
Connecticut, while the latter was born in Maryland. In 1859 Edwin H. Morse
removed to the west and in 1870 Sadie M. Steffa became a resident of Colorado.
On his arrival in this state the father took up mining in Central City and was
the discoverer and owner of various famous gold producing properties during the
many years that he devoted to mining in this section of the state. He died
December 10, 1890, at the age of fifty-three years. He had been married in
Central City and his widow there remained for some time after his death, but was
a resident of Denver at the time of her demise, which occurred December 16,
1915, when she was seventy-two years of age. They were parents of but two
children, the daughter being Carrie H. Morse, now a resident of Denver.

    The elder, Reuben J. Morse, attended the public and high schools of Central
City, Colorado, and was graduated with the class of 1893. After his textbooks
were put aside he turned his attention to newspaper work. He continued in that
field of labor for two years and through the succeeding two years devoted his
energies to the study of law under the direction of an attorney of Central City.
He gave that up to accept a position in the First National Bank at Florence,
Colorado, and he continued in various capacities with that institution for five
and a half years. At length he resigned his position to become identified with
the Colorado Portland Cement Company in the office of secretary, while later, in
1912, he also became general manager. Since that time he has had entire charge
of the vast business of this company, controlling interests of immense
magnitude. He has acquainted himself with every phase of the business and every
branch of the trade and as one of the officers is bending his attention to
constructive effort, administrative direction and executive control. He is also
connected with various, other prominent lines of business, being an officer of
the Cement Securities Company, also secretary and general manager of the Three
Forks Portland Cement Company of Montana, the Nebraska Cement Company and the
Oklahoma Portland Cement Company. Thus in connection with the cement business
his activities cover a very extensive field and the importance of his interests
classes him as one of the most prominent business men of the west.

    On the 27th of May, 1903, in Pueblo, Colorado, Mr. Morse was united in
marriage to Miss Lillian Higgins, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Higgins, of
Canon City, Colorado, and they have become the parents of three children:
Madeline, who was born in Florence in 1904 and is now attending the public
schools of Denver; Donald A., who was born in Florence in 1905; and Whitney G.,
born in Pasadena, California, in 1915.

    Mr. Morse is identified with the Denver Athletic Club and also with the
Denver Civic and Commercial Association, being deeply interested in all of its
plans and purposes for the upbuilding of the city, the extension of its business
connections and the advancement of its civic standards. He is a Mason of high
rank, belonging to chapter, commandery and Mystic, Shrine, and in politics he is
a stalwart republican, but while he votes with the party he does not seek office
as a reward for party fealty. His time and energies have ever been concentrated
upon business affairs and he is recognized as a man of marked executive force
and of notably keen discrimination. He has the sound judgment which prevents
unwarranted risks, often resulting in failure. There have been no esoteric
phases in his life work. He is a man who possesses character and ability and the
simple weight of his character and ability have carried him into most important
commercial relations.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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