Morris was the boy leaning towards his grandmother Tillie De Forest in the family group photo. The cap & gown photo was his high school graduation picture.
Morris was an intelligent young man with a bright future. He graduated from Lusk High School in Wyoming, then attended the Coyne Electrical School of Chicago. He obtained a position with the Edison Electric Appliance Co. His Chicago death record listed his occupation as electrician. I was told that he had scratched at a small boil on his nose infecting it with chemicals from his work. That led to the blood poisoning. He was taken to Cook County Hospital. His mother and sister Alice were summoned from their home in Omaha, NE. They were present when he died.
Morris graduated from Lusk High School in WY in the class of 1926. The class motto was "Don't try dying, but die trying."
According to his obituary in the Lusk, WY newspaper, "During his short stay in Chicago he had made a host of friends. Mr. C.E. Treston, welfare director of the Coyne school, wished to inform his friends of the high regard in which he was held by himself and the instructors."
As a teenager, he'd worked with his father on building their own radio in the early days of radio. This helped him to develop an interest in telecommunications. Morris was well-liked by his high school classmates, according to an autograph book he left behind. He was very much missed by his sister Alice throughout the rest of her life.
My mother's close friend from childhood, Marian Thielbar, wrote the following to me on 17 Nov. 1992: "Morris (your Uncle) was the first one in Lusk (WY) to have a crystal radio set which he built himself. As you know he died tragically in Chicago while attending an electronics school preparatory to a career in what they now call telecommunications. He was in the same class as my brother. I still think hearing the radio at their house for the first time in my life still remains one of my greatest thrills. When Morris was gone, Alice and I would listen to a station in Omaha. I had one earphone and she the other and she did the tuning. Morris had taught her. He was constantly working on it and reading everything he could get his hands on about the future of radio."
Morris was an intelligent young man with a bright future. He graduated from Lusk High School in Wyoming, then attended the Coyne Electrical School of Chicago. He obtained a position with the Edison Electric Appliance Co. His Chicago death record listed his occupation as electrician. I was told that he had scratched at a small boil on his nose infecting it with chemicals from his work. That led to the blood poisoning. He was taken to Cook County Hospital. His mother and sister Alice were summoned from their home in Omaha, NE. They were present when he died.
Morris graduated from Lusk High School in WY in the class of 1926. The class motto was "Don't try dying, but die trying."
According to his obituary in the Lusk, WY newspaper, "During his short stay in Chicago he had made a host of friends. Mr. C.E. Treston, welfare director of the Coyne school, wished to inform his friends of the high regard in which he was held by himself and the instructors."
As a teenager, he'd worked with his father on building their own radio in the early days of radio. This helped him to develop an interest in telecommunications. Morris was well-liked by his high school classmates, according to an autograph book he left behind. He was very much missed by his sister Alice throughout the rest of her life.
My mother's close friend from childhood, Marian Thielbar, wrote the following to me on 17 Nov. 1992: "Morris (your Uncle) was the first one in Lusk (WY) to have a crystal radio set which he built himself. As you know he died tragically in Chicago while attending an electronics school preparatory to a career in what they now call telecommunications. He was in the same class as my brother. I still think hearing the radio at their house for the first time in my life still remains one of my greatest thrills. When Morris was gone, Alice and I would listen to a station in Omaha. I had one earphone and she the other and she did the tuning. Morris had taught her. He was constantly working on it and reading everything he could get his hands on about the future of radio."
Morris was the boy leaning towards his grandmother Tillie De Forest in the family group photo. The cap & gown photo was his high school graduation picture.
Morris was an intelligent young man with a bright future. He graduated from Lusk High School in Wyoming, then attended the Coyne Electrical School of Chicago. He obtained a position with the Edison Electric Appliance Co. His Chicago death record listed his occupation as electrician. I was told that he had scratched at a small boil on his nose infecting it with chemicals from his work. That led to the blood poisoning. He was taken to Cook County Hospital. His mother and sister Alice were summoned from their home in Omaha, NE. They were present when he died.
Morris graduated from Lusk High School in WY in the class of 1926. The class motto was "Don't try dying, but die trying."
According to his obituary in the Lusk, WY newspaper, "During his short stay in Chicago he had made a host of friends. Mr. C.E. Treston, welfare director of the Coyne school, wished to inform his friends of the high regard in which he was held by himself and the instructors."
As a teenager, he'd worked with his father on building their own radio in the early days of radio. This helped him to develop an interest in telecommunications. Morris was well-liked by his high school classmates, according to an autograph book he left behind. He was very much missed by his sister Alice throughout the rest of her life.
My mother's close friend from childhood, Marian Thielbar, wrote the following to me on 17 Nov. 1992: "Morris (your Uncle) was the first one in Lusk (WY) to have a crystal radio set which he built himself. As you know he died tragically in Chicago while attending an electronics school preparatory to a career in what they now call telecommunications. He was in the same class as my brother. I still think hearing the radio at their house for the first time in my life still remains one of my greatest thrills. When Morris was gone, Alice and I would listen to a station in Omaha. I had one earphone and she the other and she did the tuning. Morris had taught her. He was constantly working on it and reading everything he could get his hands on about the future of radio."
Morris was an intelligent young man with a bright future. He graduated from Lusk High School in Wyoming, then attended the Coyne Electrical School of Chicago. He obtained a position with the Edison Electric Appliance Co. His Chicago death record listed his occupation as electrician. I was told that he had scratched at a small boil on his nose infecting it with chemicals from his work. That led to the blood poisoning. He was taken to Cook County Hospital. His mother and sister Alice were summoned from their home in Omaha, NE. They were present when he died.
Morris graduated from Lusk High School in WY in the class of 1926. The class motto was "Don't try dying, but die trying."
According to his obituary in the Lusk, WY newspaper, "During his short stay in Chicago he had made a host of friends. Mr. C.E. Treston, welfare director of the Coyne school, wished to inform his friends of the high regard in which he was held by himself and the instructors."
As a teenager, he'd worked with his father on building their own radio in the early days of radio. This helped him to develop an interest in telecommunications. Morris was well-liked by his high school classmates, according to an autograph book he left behind. He was very much missed by his sister Alice throughout the rest of her life.
My mother's close friend from childhood, Marian Thielbar, wrote the following to me on 17 Nov. 1992: "Morris (your Uncle) was the first one in Lusk (WY) to have a crystal radio set which he built himself. As you know he died tragically in Chicago while attending an electronics school preparatory to a career in what they now call telecommunications. He was in the same class as my brother. I still think hearing the radio at their house for the first time in my life still remains one of my greatest thrills. When Morris was gone, Alice and I would listen to a station in Omaha. I had one earphone and she the other and she did the tuning. Morris had taught her. He was constantly working on it and reading everything he could get his hands on about the future of radio."
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