Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morse, Rufus 1938
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Belding Banner-News, 1 Sep 1938

Former ‘Chicken King’ Found Dead In Bed

Rufus Morse, for many years a well known resident of this city and the Cook’s
Corners neighborhood, was found dead in his bed in a Grand Rapids hotel Monday
morning.  Death was due to natural causes, according to a coroner who made an
investigation following the death.

Mr. Morse was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Morse, pioneer residents of this
locality.  He graduated from the local schools and attended the University of
Michigan where he graduated in law and practiced for a time at Ionia, but some
years afterward gave up the practice of law and went into the chicken business
on a large scale, with the result he was credited with having, at that time, the
largest chicken business in the world and was known throughout the greater part
of the nation as the “chicken king” and the name of “Morse’s White Leghorns” was
familiar among poultry people from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with large
shipments of poultry going out from his chicken ranch, located at Cook’s Corners.

A number of years ago, with his wife, Mr. Morse went to Grand Rapids to live and
Mrs. Morse died there about a year ago.  Recently he had been employed as a
bookkeeper in the Kent county building at Grand Rapids.

Funeral service were held at Grand Rapids Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock and
the body was brought to Cook’s Corners, his old home, where it was buried in
Otisco cemetery.

John Morse of Cook’s Corners, is a brother and the only immediate survivor.


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