Brief Life History of Harrison Elliot
When Harrison Elliot Morse was born on 22 April 1861, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Lewis Morse, was 26 and his mother, Eleanor Catharine Berry, was 25. He married Alvina Amanda Graham on 26 May 1891, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 70 years. He died on 2 March 1942, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Old Calvary Cemetery, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Harrison E Morse, "United States Census, 1930"
- Harrison E. Morse, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
- Harrison E. Morse, "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: variant of Morris .
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames, especially Moses . Compare Morris .
History: Samuel Morse (1791–1872), inventor of the electric telegraph andof Morse code, was a direct descendant of Anthony Morse of Wiltshire,England, who had emigrated to MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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