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unusual facts about Samuel F.B. Morse



A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse

From 1971 to 1980, the Morses' considerable Dalí collection was on show in Beachwood, Ohio at the Salvador Dalí Museum, which was established there in a wing of their business premises.

The Morses' diligent collecting and their friendship with Gala and Salvador Dalí produced a valuable art collection that is now housed in the Salvador Dalí Museum in St.Petersburg, Florida.

Alisa Lepselter

Since Sweet and Lowdown (1999), she has edited all of Woody Allen's films; she succeeded Susan E. Morse, who edited Allen's films for the previous 20 years.

Bangor Public Library

In 1883, former U.S. Congressman and lumber baron Samuel F. Hersey left the City of Bangor a $100,000 bequest, which the city used to form a municipally owned public library.

Barton Yarborough

Yarborough was probably best known for his roles as Doc Long in the West Coast cast of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery and Sergeant Ben Romero, Joe Friday's original partner, on Dragnet.

Carlton E. Morse

From 1922 to 1928, Morse was employed at the Sacramento Union, the San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald, The Seattle Times, Vancouver Columbian, Portland Oregonian and The San Francisco Bulletin.

When the Bulletin was absorbed into the San Francisco Call in 1929, Morse lost his job, soon after marrying his first wife, Patricia DeBall.

Charles T. Barney

In 1907, the Knickerbocker entered into a deal organized by speculators F. Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse to corner the market of the United Copper Company.

Charles W. Morse

In 1912 Morse became ill, and a panel of Army doctors declared that he suffered from Bright's disease and other maladies and would soon die if he remained in prison.

Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Amongst the many well-known figures who worked for the Customs in China were Willard Straight, botanist Augustine Henry; Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe, Norwegian; G.R.G. Worcester (1890-1969), River Inspector from 1914 to 1948, and author of seven published books on the Yangzi River; novelist and journalists Bertram Lenox Simpson (known as Putnam Weale) and J.O.P. Bland; and historian H.B. Morse.

Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex

To address the large number of false positive results generated by the D–M Soundex, Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider created the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching algorithm.

David A. Morse

In 1969, as a result of his inspired leadership, the ILO was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Doggett's Repository of Arts

The gallery exhibited originals and copies of works by European masters such as Titian, Rembrandt, Watteau, and David, and a few American artists, such as Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, Samuel F.B. Morse, Rembrandt Peale, and William Dunlap.

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

# Andrew Judson White, MD (1824–1898) — paternal uncle of publisher and poet James Terry White (1845–1920)

The Indian Root Pills were first formulated and manufactured in 1854 by Andrew B. Moore (born around 1821, New York), who was then operating under the name A.B. Moore in Buffalo, New York.

Elijah A. Morse

He served as chairman of the Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic (Fifty-fourth Congress).

Morse was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1897).

Elmer Morse

Elmer A. Morse, (1870-1945), former U.S. Representative from Wisconsin

Emerante Morse

She and her husband had one daughter and one son, Richard A. Morse, who also became a musician and prominent public figure in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Frank B. Morse

After the death of Edith Nourse Rogers in September 1960, he was selected by the Republican Party to take her place on the ballot and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in November 1960.

Freeman H. Morse

His interment was in the parish churchyard of St. Mary’s in Long Ditton, England.

Morse was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861).

Henry Faulds

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

Henry G. Morse

Morse was hired in 1925 to visit England and study other manors, travelling around the English countryside and surveying properties such as Wormleighton Manor, fusing together different ideas into the final reconstruction in Virginia.

Jefferson F. Long

Long was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused when the U.S. House declared Samuel F. Gove not entitled to the seat and served from January 16, 1871 to March 3, 1871.

John J. Midgley

Midgley was chosen to be the 12th president of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2004, after Samuel F. Hulbert, the engineering college's longest-serving president, stepped down.

McGill EMF Conference

The IIHD had offices in Geneva and the USA, and was a creation of labor lawyer David A. Morse (Noble Laureate and ex-Director of the International Labor Organization to prmote the views of the tobacco industry to the United Nations, the World Health Organisation), and politicians and health-care administrators in Europe.

Melvin L. Morse

Prior to his arrest, he was working as a pediatrician at an office in Milton, Delaware.

Melvin Morse

Melvin L. Morse, pediatrician and author on near death experiences

O'Reilly v. Morse

” To send a signal from Baltimore to Washington would require thousands of volts and high currents – not feasible at a time when managing to make a pickled frog’s legs twitch, as Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta did, was the major achievement of the electro-galvanic force.

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

Richard Auguste Morse

His father, Richard M. Morse, was an American academic sociologist and writer, and his mother was a famous Haitian singer, Emerante de Pradines.

Richard S. Morse

Richard S. Morse (August 19, 1911- July 1, 1988) was an American inventor and scientist credited with invention of the orange juice concentrate, the founder of the Minute Maid, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Assistant Secretary of the Army, senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Samuel F. Gove

He presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-first Congress, but was not permitted to qualify.

Upon the readmission of the State of Georgia to representation he was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from June 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869.

Samuel F. Hersey

But he was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1873, until his death in Bangor before the close of the Forty-third Congress.

Samuel F. Patterson

Other offices Patterson held included president of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, clerk of the Superior Court, justice of the peace, Indian commissioner, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and various positions with the Masons.

Samuel F. Pickering, Jr.

One of Pickering's students at Montgomery Bell Academy, Tom Schulman, later wrote the script for the film Dead Poets Society, basing the pedagogy of Robin Williams' character very loosely on Pickering's eccentric style.

A Fulbright recipient, Pickering has lectured in classrooms in Jordan and Syria, and has held research posts at the University of Western Australia as well as the University of Edinburgh.

Samuel F. Snively

At the time, Brewster was the United States Attorney General in the cabinet of Chester A. Arthur.

Samuel F. Tappan

He openly charged that the efforts of the peace policy to reach a final settlement with Plains and Southwest Indians were being undermined by congressional railroad and land speculation interests, and that these interests were ultimately responsible for such atrocities against the Indians as the 1871 massacre of Eskiminzin's Apache band at Camp Grant, Arizona.

Samuel F. Wright

The bill was unanimously approved by the Virginia House and Senate.

Sigurd F. Olson

He led canoe expeditions for a group that became known as the "Voyageurs," which routinely included Eric W. Morse, Denis Coolican, Blair Fraser, Tony Lovink, Eric W. Morse, Elliott Rodger, and Omond Solandt.

Stephen S. Morse

He was the founding chair of a nonprofit organization called ProMED (Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases) and was one of the originators of ProMED-mail, an international network inaugurated by it in 1994 for disease outbreak reporting and monitoring using the Internet.

Steven Morse

Stephen S. Morse, (born ~1940s), American scientist on emerging infectious diseases

Theta Delta Chi

Theta Delta Chi, the eleventh oldest of the college fraternities, was founded in 1847 at Union College in Schenectady, NY by six members of the class of 1849: William G. Akin, Abel Beach, Theodore Brown, Andrew H. Green, William Hyslop, and Samuel F. Wile.


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Ruthmere Mansion

In the hallway are a doll collection, a grandfather clock and art hanging on the walls and stairwell, including The Lost Profile by William Morris Hunt, a portrait of the painters' wife, and a self-portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse.