Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-04-25
The Late SumMel r. B. Morse.

fNteRtOr-- Its foTy't' yN' Wv
Eecoynisation Of HIS Greu M-
reniion, The Telegraph.
From. the New York Mail.
Before we 90 to press-there IL no
longer hope for above three hours, As
we write at eleven O'Clock tho tcle,
grapt. will have flashed over the world
The sad--and yet notssad-news that
it's great inventor Is No more. oaa,
because the world misses :he pes
euce Of such men; NOT sad, because
This death is the natural rounding OF
a If. that has been filed to the ban
with glorious achievement anu the
honor Of all men. There has been
few men in The whole record OF his
tory whose life has been so variouSIy
devoted to the highest interests OF
mankind. or to whom IL has been
given to accomplish so mach for the
rsce. He has won and worn the
highest honors that American art
conld award hum before he began to
earn the tributes Of world for the
most wonderful application of science,
And as his days so was his strength
unto the last.
April 27, 1871, within sight of Bun
kcr TIL, in memorable CharIestown,
Samuel Finlr Breese Morse was
horn. He was the son OF the EeV'
,Jedodiah Morse, ID. d.. pastor oil the
FRS, Congregational Church, leading
light of the Orthodoxists OF the day
in their hrht against New England
ITni,erianism, and author, too, OF that
many voIuned series ot text books
from which the passing generation
studied geography, His historical
works, also, are numerous. lie was
a graduate of Yale, 1883, and it was
ia Yale that he sent the boy Samuel,
who graduated thence IN 1910, III
company with Gov. Ellsworth OF
Connecticut. President Hasbronck ot
Rutgers, Professor Chaancy a. Good,
rich Professor Ebenezer kellogg, and
other distinguished men. Ills first
bent WAS toward engineering, but i'm
media,ely after graduation he decided
npon the life of an artist; SO went to
Enuland with Washington AlIston IN
1911, becoming then pupil OF Ben,
iam;n West. In 1918 he exhibited
at the Royal Academy his dying
uerc,les,' and in May of that year a
plas,cr model of the same which ne
had made in preparing tor the PIC
tnrc wo,, the gold modal of the Lon
don Adrlphi Society of Arts This
success encouraged him 10 compete
for the premium for..historicaI rompo-
sition. The picture painted for this
purpose was "1'he Judgement OF Ja
pitcr," between Apollo, Marpessa and
Ldas and West is authority for say.
inc that il would have drawn the
prize had not his departure from Ehg
land Withdrawn it from competition
un,ler the rules. In England, Morse
AID {. L. Leslie were great friends,
and The first portraits painted IN Eng
land by the two we're "t each other
IN 1878, he returned, settling in B"s.
ton. But art wa, not appreciated IN
the modern Athens ot that date, aud
we iud him making a livirs ap III
New Hampshire At sl5 lh" head for
portraits. Thence at the solicitation
Of friends, he removed to Charleston,
) g., and found better paying appre'
ciation but IA ls22 he gra'ltaied t"
the metropolis. The city Of New
York gave him commission for a
full length Of Lafayette, and orders
poured IN. 1t was in 1926 that the
National Academy Of Design wa
tuimcl, growing ont Of q drawing
association started in 1924, Mr.. Mor."
trkiug an active part in the organ'@a
tion, aud being elected its hrst Pres'
idont This position he held tor NIX
teen years. The first course OF art
letter delivered in America wa5 read
by HIM b, him before the New York
Athenaun, aud afterwards repeated
TO the student of the new Academy.
One vi his important paintings u a
large picture of the House o. Repre-.
sentallves Of that day with nnneroaS
portraits. This now hangs IN an
Eugllsh gallery. During this period
he dipped into literature also, editing,
with biographical ske'Hh, the Poem"
Of Lucretia NJ. Davidson, gifted
young writer whose volume was re-
printed only last year.
iuis29, he started again for Europe
staying three years. Wilde i'll Paris
he painted Il picture of one OF the
Louvr. galleries, copying The chiefly
notable paintings on the wall IN mn
aturp. Ills election to the char o'
the literature Of the arts Of design in
the University of New York recalled
him, and in October, 1852, no sailed
from Hayre III the packet ship SnIly
There was the birthplace OF The
Morse electric telegraph.
The professor had been much IN
teres,ed in electro. Magnetism, and
had been wont TO discuss the hcw dis
covery much with his friend, Prot. j
+. Dana. On board the Sully grouf
Of passengers happened into the sub
iect, when a Boston physician, DR.
Chas. S. Jackson, described late
Paris experiment, in which electrleit,
had been instaGtaneously transmitted
through long length OF ~ie. Said
Morse III thAti, 50, | see n, reas
an whv ,u.sxayes may not be insian