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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

HON. ELIJAH ADAMS MORSE.

   ELIJAH A. MORSE, son of the Rev. Abner and Hannah (Peck) Morse, was born May
25, 1841, in South Bend, Ind. He received his early education in the public
schools of Boston, and under the instruction of the Hon. Charles Kimball, of
Lowell, Mass. He very early betrayed a business turn of mind, and when a lad of
fifteen years he manufactured stove polish on a small scale, and with his little
stock in a carpet-bag he trudged from house to house to make sales of what he
esteemed, and which has proved to be, a superior article. This polish was
prepared according to a formula given to the lad by the eminent chemist, Dr.
Charles Jackson, of Boston, who was a friend of young Morse's father. In 1860,
Mr. Morse commenced to make this manufacture on a larger scale, but soon after
the Rebellion broke out, and being of a patriotic spirit, he enlisted for three
months in Company A, 4th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and subsequently
reenlisted in the same company, and was in active service for nine months. His
term having expired, he settled, in 1864, in Canton, Mass., and rented a small
room where he resumed the manufacture of stove polish, which has since become
world renowned, grown into a colossal business, and made Mr. Morse, while a
young man, the master of great wealth. Mr. Morse is an active Christian
gentleman, a popular temperance lecturer, a man wide awake and of advanced
ideas, prominent in the State, and everywhere greatly respected. In 1876 he
served in the House of Representatives, and was elected Nov. 3, 1885, to the
State Senate from the First Eighth Norfolk District, receiving a large number of
votes in advance of the Republican ticket of that district, an index of the
public esteem and honor in which Mr. Morse is held. His pleasing address, high
Christian principles, popular abilities, devotion to human welfare, large
wealth, and ready benevolence, render him a great power for good wherever his
presence and influence are enjoyed.


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From:

THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records 
OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES 
IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.

Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

BY
E. O. JAMESON,

THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC.

MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

 Copyright, 1886.

E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.

All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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