Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-04-10
Professor MeFse.

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Frans.in. Count Rumi0rd, III Whiine.
Eiias hose. sEi 50 many others Of thi
class. be uas a Massachusetts, man. u
father. DE-. Jeiiiiah Morsc. who vas oh
"the father OF .Am.rican GcOsiaphy
was a settled minister Al Charlcsioun irol
l7sg to 1870. aui there bic eldest sol
lust deceased, was born. April 2I'h, li9I
He graduated at Yale in 1910, aud
the age OF 20 went TO EngIaud With Nasa
inglon Allsion, aud studied painting
London unler the amiabIe but iircson'
Benjamin West. Young Morse took
prize for a model Of i" Dying Hercules
in London, we suspect on Vests account
AMI returned to New Englind in 1915 &
paint portraits in New Hampshire at 81
head. In 1892 he settled ia Now y ORR
aud there pursued his career as an artist
in 1926 he became the first president o
the " National Academy OF Design an
held the position fer sixteen years' leei
uring as professor c! the hue arts IN New
York university a considerable part OF th'
time. But he was not a great artist, anl
his fame comes almost wholly from hn
amateur experiments in chemistry and me-
chanics, from 1880 down to the time when
he brought out his great invocation in 1887
Tao electric telegraph will make hIs name
b. remembered when all his paintings ano
those of his cotemporaries are forgotten.
[. is a singular fact that DIR. Charles I
Jackson Of Boston, who contests with Drs
Morton and " ellis the discovery Of ether
as an auasthetic. also contests with DR..
Morse the honor Of the first suggestion o..
the electric telegraph. As the two were
coming home from France in the packet
Sally, late in 1882, they had several con-
versations about electromagnetic, it,
which each claims that he suggested to the
other the notion Of an 4" electro magnetic
and chemical recording telegraph" How.
ever this dispute may be settled, it is cel-
tain that Prof. Morse went Gu to study
out and perfect the machinery for such a
telegraph, sbrewdly availing himself Of
the knowledge and aid ofothcr men, such
MS Alfred Vail and Prof l.. D. Gale, and
giving the invention practical existence.
He applied to Congress for a subsidy TO
develop the invention in 1887. aud by the
aid Of II. o. j. Smith aud other congress
men he obtained it in lS43,-and in the
following year he had his line working be-
tween Washington and Baltimore. He
had flied his cayeat for u patent in 1897.
the same year that Wheatstone and Cooke
took out their English patent; but Morses
invention has been more generally adopted
and used than thdtrs, and the credit ofthe
discovery will probably be forever assooia-
ted with his lame. Since lS4S, honors
and wealth have been heaped upon him,
and at the iuggestion of Louis Napoleon,
ten European governments, France, Rus
STA, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Holland,
Sardinia, Tuscany, the pore and the sui
tan, United, dozen years ago, in making
up purse Of 400, 900 francs us a tcstimo.
NAL to the inventor.
Of late Prof Morse has divided the
year between his two places of residence,
New York and Poughkeepsic, and his
death took place in New York. He was
a man OF much worldly wisdom and of
an amable character, strict in his religious
professions. as became the son Of DR.. |
Morse and the brother of the New York
Observer; ultra conservative in his politics
Tor many years; a lover of culture and
the eiegancies of life. lie had reached
good old age, though, until recently, we'll
exempt from its infrmilies.-Sp Springfield |