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Ephraim Morse

In June 1869, he moved to the new development of Horton's Addition, also known as New Town, organized and promoted by the successful land merchant Alonzo Horton.

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The two had both read Two Years Before the Mast by fellow Massachusetts native Richard Henry Dana, Jr., about his voyage by sea to California, spending much time in San Diego, then a small Mexican pueblo.

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By his first wife he had one son, Edward, who eventually resettled in newly incorporated Merrimac, Massachusetts, formerly West Amesbury.

Joseph S. Manasse

While on the board he voted for Ephraim Morse's proposal in 1868 to set aside a large track of land for a public park, which eventually became Balboa Park.

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