Sidney Edwards Morse, the second son of Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. (Y. 0. 1783), and of Elizabeth Ann (Breese) Morse, was born on the battlefield of Bunker's Hill, in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 7, 1794.
In 1806, when but eleven years old, he passed the examination for admission into Yale College, but did not actually enter until two years later, and graduated the youngest in his class.
He studied law in the Litchfield Law School, and from that occupation was invited to Boston, to become the first editor (in Jan., 1816) of the Boston Recorder "the oldest religious newspaper in the world." His connection with the Recorder was a brief one, and he subsequently spent more than two years (1817-20) in the Andover Theological Seminary. In 1823, in connection with his younger brother, Richard C. Morse (Y. C. 1812) he established the New York Observer of which he remained chief editor and proprietor until 1858, when he retired to devote himself to scientific pursuits. He had already, in 1817, in connection with his elder brother, Samuel F. B. Morse (Y. C. 1810), patented a newly invented flexible piston-pump; and in 1839 had invented a new mode of engraving which he styled cerography. After leaving the Observer he was especially interested in perfecting a new bathometer, on which he had been engaged during the evening of his fatal illness. He died of paralysis, at his residence in N. Y. city, Dec. 23d, 1871, in his 78th year.
Mr. Morse was married, Apr. 1, 1841, to Catharine, eldest child of Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, D.D., of Philadelphia, who survives him, with one son and one daughter,
(Yale Alumni Obituary Manuscript)
Sidney Edwards Morse, the second son of Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. (Y. 0. 1783), and of Elizabeth Ann (Breese) Morse, was born on the battlefield of Bunker's Hill, in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 7, 1794.
In 1806, when but eleven years old, he passed the examination for admission into Yale College, but did not actually enter until two years later, and graduated the youngest in his class.
He studied law in the Litchfield Law School, and from that occupation was invited to Boston, to become the first editor (in Jan., 1816) of the Boston Recorder "the oldest religious newspaper in the world." His connection with the Recorder was a brief one, and he subsequently spent more than two years (1817-20) in the Andover Theological Seminary. In 1823, in connection with his younger brother, Richard C. Morse (Y. C. 1812) he established the New York Observer of which he remained chief editor and proprietor until 1858, when he retired to devote himself to scientific pursuits. He had already, in 1817, in connection with his elder brother, Samuel F. B. Morse (Y. C. 1810), patented a newly invented flexible piston-pump; and in 1839 had invented a new mode of engraving which he styled cerography. After leaving the Observer he was especially interested in perfecting a new bathometer, on which he had been engaged during the evening of his fatal illness. He died of paralysis, at his residence in N. Y. city, Dec. 23d, 1871, in his 78th year.
Mr. Morse was married, Apr. 1, 1841, to Catharine, eldest child of Rev. Gilbert R. Livingston, D.D., of Philadelphia, who survives him, with one son and one daughter,
(Yale Alumni Obituary Manuscript)
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