Lewis Morse1

(8 July 1778 - 2 August 1830)
Date this page was last edited=18 May 2014
Lewis Morse was born on 8 July 1778.1,2 He was the son of Ezra Morse and Susanna Guild.1

Lewis Morse was a soap boiler. He and his brothers Amos and Harford were first to establish a conveyance for passengers between Roxbury and Boston.2 They also established the Roxbury "hourlies," which were stage coaches that ran every hour from the Washington coffee house in Boston to Roxbury.2,3

Lewis Morse was a founder of the Universalist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts.2

Lewis Morse died on 2 August 1830 at age 52.1,2

Citations

  1. [S405] Morse, Memorial of the Morses, 13.
  2. [S796] Eliot Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 313.
  3. [S797] William Harrison Ukers, All About Coffee, 110.


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