Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Morse, Alex L. October 12, 1832 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Morse, Alex L., Dolgeville, was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., October 12, 
1832. After receiving a good education he learned the trade of saddlery and 
harness making before his twentieth year, after which he worked as a furrier 
for a number of years, finally establishing an enterprise in Boston, which he 
conducted for fifteen years, and where he married Miss Ruth McClean. In the 
spring of 1865 he went to the oil country and established himself in his line, 
but eventually branched out into the oil business, in which he was signally 
successful, amassing a fortune of over $65,000, but which, unfortunately, 
through misfortune in the business, he lost. After again succeeding in a 
limited degree through contracting, he again dropped his savings in oil,
and four years ago came to Dolgeville and inaugurated a business in his old 
line of harness and horse supplies.   Mr. Morse has two children, both girls.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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