Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Morse, Charles Percy August 4, 1872 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

CHARLES PERCY MORSE, Contractor. As a shipping man and, in recent years, as a 
contractor, C. Percy Morse has been associated with the business life of 
Honolulu for a quarter of a century. He is now general manager of the J. L. 
Young Engineering Co.
  Mr. Morse engaged in the shipping business in San Francisco from 1890 to 
1900, working with J. F. Chapman & Co., one of the founders of the American-
Hawaiian Steamship Co. When passenger and freight service between New York and 
the Hawaiian Islands was planned by a group of New York and California 
shipping men, Mr. Morse was sent to Honolulu as agent for the American-
Hawaiian Steamship Co., a position he held for 20 years, until 1920, when the 
service was permanently discontinued, except for the period of the war when 
all American-Hawaiian steamers were pressed into service on the Atlantic by 
the United States government. During the war, Mr. Morse’s services were 
drafted by the federal government as agent for the U. S. Shipping Board in 
Hawaii. In 1920 he became vice-president and assistant manager of the Inter-
Island Steam Navigation Co. and two years later joined the J. L. Young 
Engineering Co.
  Although his parents, Charles Carrol Morse and Marjorie (Webber) Morse of 
Maine, were Americans, Mr. Morse was born and educated in England. He was born 
in Falmouth, August 4, 1872, and first visited America when he was taken to 
San Francisco at the age of two years.
  When Mr. Morse reached school age his parents returned to England, where he 
attended school, completing his education at the famous Stoke School. He was 
only 18 when he again went to San Francisco and entered the shipping business.
  Marrying Mable V. Smith of San Francisco on June 26, 1899, the year before 
he came to Hawaii, Mr. Morse has two sons, John D. and Grant C. Morse, both of 
whom attended the University of Hawaii.
  Mr. Morse is a Mason and a member of the Pacific, Country and Outrigger 
Canoe Clubs, and the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce.


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