When Franklin Wesley Morse was born on 31 January 1865, in Illinois, United States, his father, John Wesley Morse, was 34 and his mother, Jane A Warner, was 26. He married Pearl Almira Durkee on 25 October 1898, in Baker, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 10, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 16 October 1938, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1870 United States Federal Population Census; population 995
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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