Cowlitz County WA Archives Biographies.....Morse, Roy Francis March 23, 1885 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/wafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com May 28, 2009, 10:57 am Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company ROY FRANCIS MORSE. The logging and lumber manufacturing interests of the Long-Bell Lumber Company are being handled by Roy F. Morse, of Longview, who has been with this well known concern for many years and commands the confidence of all who have had dealings with him. Mr. Morse was born near Harrison, Boone county, Arkansas, March 23, 1885, and is a son of Francis Joseph and Frances Josephine (Waterman) Morse. His father, who was of Scotch- Irish descent, was born in Buffalo, New York, and later went to Michigan, where he engaged in a general mercantile business, subsequently moving to Louisiana, where he died. His father and Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, were first cousins. Mrs. Morse was born at Burr Oak, Michigan, and was of English ancestry, the American progenitor of the family settling in Hartford, Connecticut. Roy F. Morse attended the public schools of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, after which he took a commercial course in a business college in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to work for the Lake Charles American-Press, by which he was employed in various capacities, and in 1905 became connected with the Long-Bell Lumber Company at Lake Charles. He gave his employers faithful and efficient service and was promoted through different positions of responsibility, until finally he was made general manager of its Longview division, which embraces all of its lumber and logging operations in the state of Washington. His long experience in the company's service well qualified him for this responsible position and he has devoted himself closely to the firm's interests in this territory. He has been wisely economical of his private financial resources and is now very comfortably situated, having interests in a bank and business houses in Longview, as well as being a director of the Long-Bell Lumber Company. On April 20, 1920, in Yellow Pine, Louisiana, Mr. Morse was united in marriage to Miss Inez Martin, who was born at Park City, Michigan, February 20, 1889, and is a daughter of John and Jeannie (McGonigle) Martin. Her father, who was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1853, was actively engaged in the lumber business for fifty-four years, during twenty-seven years of which period he was with the Long-Bell Lumber Company as general manager of its various southern operations, but is now retired and lives in Portland, Oregon. His wife was born in Park City, Michigan, in 1866, and is also living in Portland. For many years she took an active interest in the various societies of the Presbyterian church, of which she is a member. Mrs. Morse graduated from Mansfield (Louisiana) College and studied piano in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She was honored by being selected to play with Victor Herbert's orchestra when they were in Cincinnati. She still continues her piano studies and has composed a number of pieces for that instrument. She takes a deep interest in local civic affairs, is a director of the Longview public library and is president of the Round Robin Literary Club. Mr. and Mrs. Morse are the parents of two children, Jean Frances, born at Ludington, Louisiana, January 29, 1915, and Nancy Ann, born at Quitman, Mississippi, March 31, 1921. In his political affiliation Mr. Morse is a republican and fraternally, he is a member of Longview Lodge, No. 263, A. F. & A. M.; Mississippi Consistory, A.A.S.R.; Hamasa Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Concatinated Order of Hoo-Hoo, the Longview Country Club, and the Lions Clubs, of which he was president for two years. He is also a trustee of the Longview Young Men's Christian Association. He and his wife attend the Community church. Mr. Morse was a member of the Louisiana state militia, belonging to the company at Lake Charles, of which he was first sergeant from 1904 to 1908. During the World war he was engaged in getting out material for the shipyards, and was therefore exempted from active military service. He is a member of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, of which he was president in 1927, and has taken a keen interest in every phase of the lumbering and logging business in this state. He is an expert in his line and is widely recognized as a man of ability and dependable qualities, commanding the respect and esteem of all who know him. Additional Comments: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Pages 768-769 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/cowlitz/bios/morse31gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wafiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb