CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: AMOS HORSE (1881) *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitter: Tina Hursh Email: ribbit@clubnet.isl.net Date: 25 May 2002 *********************************************************************** >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Bonnie Walsh. --------------- HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.871 [H surnames] CHICAGO BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS 186 DEARBORN STREET 1881 AUBURN TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO AMOS HORSE. farmer: P. O. Tiro; was born Feb. 4, 1819, in Huron Co., Ohio. His parents, Rudolphus and Huldah (Williams) Morse, were natives of Massachusetts. The father was born April 17, 1791, and his wife June 26, 1794. They were married in Ontario Co., N. Y., Nov. 13, 1816, and moved to Huron Co., Ohio, June 1818, and in March, 1820, came to Auburn Township, Crawford Co., when, he remained all his life. They were the parents of six children. viz., Amos, Amanda, Joel, Joseph W., Zebediah and Malin D. Amos and Malin are the only ones in the family now living. The parents came to Auburn Township when the country was but very thinly settled. Their financial means were very small, and. coming as they did into a new country, their start depended mainly on their own physical exertions. The father died Oct. 11, 1872 and the mother May 26, 1873. Mr. Morse was one of the most influential men of his neighborhood, holding several offices of honor and trust in his township. Amos passed his youth with his parents and when he reached his majority began for himself. On the 13th of May, 1849, he was married Mehetabel, daughter of David and Dorcas (White) Carlisle. and by her had three children - Frank R., born May 17, 1852, and Amanda and Adelia, twins. born Sept. 5, 1854. The mother was born .Jan. 8, 1819. Frank married Alvira B. Stock. in 1876: Delia married Samuel A. Stock. in 1876, and Amanda married Milton W. Griffeth, in 1877. In his earlier years, Mr. Morse was a school teacher. He is a Republican in politics, and although in a Democratic neighborhood has held the office of Justice of the Peace for the past twenty years. Owns 160 acres of land. He is a Baptist in religion, and is a man of more than ordinary intelligence.