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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
American historian and biographer
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
1840(Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA)
Death:
1937(Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA)
Residences
Massachusetts, USA
Education:
Harvard University
Family:
Mother:
Lucy Cabot Morse
Father:
John Torrey Morse, Sr.
The details
Biography
Introduction
John Torrey Morse (1840–1937) was an American historian and biographer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 9, 1840, and lived in that city as a lawyer. Morse was the editor of the American Statesmen Series and published a biography of Alexander Hamilton in two volumes, considered his most significant work. He also wrote biographies of John and John Quincy Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin, and Dr. Holmes. Morse also authored A Treatise on the Law of Banks and Banking, The Law of Arbitration and Award, and Famous Trials.
Works
- Famous Trials: The Tichborne Claimant, Troppmann, Prince Pierre Bonaparte, Mrs. Wharton, The meteor, Mrs. Fair (1874)
- Benjamin Franklin (1889)
- John Adams (1894)
- Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896)
- John Quincy Adams (1899)
- A Treatise on the Law of Banks and Banking (1928)
- The Life of Alexander Hamilton (1876)
- Thomas Jefferson (1890)
- Abraham Lincoln (1893)
- The Law of Arbitration and Award (1872)