MORSE, Oscar F., b. 1868: 1905 Bio, Rio Blanco County, Colorado

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Donated August 2001

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net>  from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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Oscar F. Morse

	For a period of seventeen years, more than half of his life, Oscar F. Morse, of

Rio Blanco county, has been a resident of Colorado and lived on the ranch which

is now his home, two miles and a half south of Meeker.  He is therefore in full

sympathy with the aspirations and interests of the people of this neighborhood,

and has proven it by his active support of every commendable enterprise for

their progress and the development of the country.   He was born in New Haven

county, Connecticut, on March 4, 1868, and is the son of Riley and Hannah Morse,

industrious farmers of that state whom he assisted in their labors until he

reached the age of nineteen, and under whose direction he received a limited

education at the common schools near his home.  Inheriting the spirit of

industry and thrift and acquiring the habits of useful diligence characteristic

of the New England people, he came to his new home in the far West in 1887, a

young man of nineteen, well prepared for whatever destiny of toil and privation

its unsettled condition might lay before him.  Two years after his arrival in

the vicinity of Meeker he pre-empted a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of

land about two miles and a half from the town, and at once gave himself wholly

to the task of improving it and making it habitable and productive.  In the

course of a few years he bought another quarter section and now has three

hundred and twenty acres of arable land, all of which is under cultivation and

yielding good returns for the time and energy he devotes to tilling it.  All the

improvements on the place in the way of buildings and advanced husbandry he has

made, having taken the land in its state of natural wildness and transformed it

into a comfortable home, fruitful in all the products of cultivated life

suitable to its character and ministrant to the swelling tides of commerce and

the aggregate wealth of the land.  Like other good American citizens Mr. Morse

takes an active and serviceable part in the public life of his section and the

country generally, earnestly supporting the Republican party in politics and

lending his aid in many ways to the advancement and enrichment of his county and

state.  He is highly respected as an upright man, a useful citizen and a

stimulating force in the development and direction of a healthy public sentiment

in the community.



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