When Anthony Wooster Morse was born on 29 March 1788, in Sharon, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Anthony Morse, was 34 and his mother, Hulda Taylor, was 30. He married Electa Russel Wellman on 25 November 1822. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 6 August 1843, at the age of 55, and was buried in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
Historic Boundaries: 1793: French First Republic 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1806: Cape Girardeau District, Louisiana Territory, United States 1813: Cape Girardeau, Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
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.
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