Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the first geography publication in the U.S. Morse established the Andover Theological Seminary (1808), the New England Tract Society (1814), and the American Bible Society (1816). He started several periodicals and devoted the latter part of his life to working in behalf of American Indians and the poor.

Clergyman and geographer.

George Morgan was born in Philadelphia on February 14, 1743, the son of Evan Morgan and Joanna Biles. As a teenager, he worked for the Philadelphia firm Baynton & Wharton, which became Baynton, Wharton & Morgan in 1763. He married Mary Baynton, the senior partner's daughter, with whom he had 11 children. Morgan became involved in the Illinois trade shortly after the end of the French and Indian War, and he traveled west with George Croghan around 1766. He returned to Philadelphia in the early 1770s, following a long-running feud with British army officer John Wilkins. Baynton, Wharton & Morgan dissolved around this period, and Morgan became involved in the Indiana Company until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. In 1776, he was appointed Indian agent for the Middle Department, a position he held until his resignation in May 1779. He lived in Prospect, New Jersey, until 1789, when he led an expedition to "New Madrid" in Spanish-held territory. In 1796, he moved to Morganza, Pennsylvania, where he died on March 10, 1810.

Born in Ireland, Mathew Carey spent most of his professional career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he worked as a printer, publisher, and economist.

American author, minister, geographer.

Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography".

His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the first geography publication in the U.S. Morse established the Andover Theological Seminary (1808), the New England Tract Society (1814), and the American Bible Society (1816). He started several periodicals and devoted the latter part of his life to working in behalf of American Indians and the poor.

Clergyman and geographer; Charlestown, Massachusetts

Woodstock, Connecticut. Studied at Yale University. Wrote school textbook on geography, GEOGRAPHY MADE EASY, 1784, along with numerous other geography books and an article in ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 1790.