My Genealogy Hound

HENRY H. MORSE, farmer; P. O. West Milton; born in Bennington Co., Vt., in 1815; is a son of John and Abigail (Himes) Morse; the former was born in the State of Connecticut, and removed with his father, Noah Morse, to Vermont, in a very early day. Jedidiah, a brother of Noah, was the author of the first school geography, and the electrician S. F. B. Morse was a relative of our subject. His parents made Vermont their home; there they reared their family; there they died, and there their bodies were consigned to the tomb; his mother lived to see fourscore and ten years; they were the parents of ten children, of whom only three are left, viz., Nancy, Daniel and Henry; the rest died of consumption, as did their father. Henry’s boyhood days were spent on the farm, assisting in its cultivation; he grappled with the heavy tasks to be found; in 1850, he removed to Montgomery Co., Ohio, where he engaged in school-teaching, in the vicinity of Dayton; here he labored for some years, after which he moved to Monroe Township, in Darke Co., where he purchased 120 acres of land, on which he lived for ten or eleven years, and taught two terms of school in Miami Co.; selling this land, he removed to the place where he now resides, in 1862; he has 108 acres of land, which is all in a fine state of cultivation, with good buildings erected thereon. In the year 1841, he married Miss Catherine, a daughter of Jacob Laruse, who was a resident of Montgomery Co. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Morse six children have been given, viz., Aldeba, Mary, Clara, Alice, Minerva and Laura. Mr. M. is one of our self-made men, having begun life empty-handed, but by industry and good management, coupled with frugality, he has accomplished the great object in life—made a good home—and is now enjoying the shades of retirement.