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Samuel B. Morse journal 1861-1869 Morse, Samuel B. journal

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Samuel B. Morse, a Baptist pastor, kept this journal while teaching at Urania College in Glasgow, Kentucky, and Pacific Methodist College in Vacaville, California, during the Civil War, as well as throughout his studies at Newton Theological Seminary in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in the late 1860s. He commented on his social life, described his travels between the East and West Coasts of the United States, and mentioned military and political developments during the Civil War.

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Newton Theological Institution

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Morse, Samuel B., 1834-1897

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Samuel B. Morse was born in Maine on October 26, 1834, and attended Waterville College (now Colby College) in Waterville, Maine. He moved to Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1858 and received a degree from Urania College, where he taught and continued to study until 1861. That year, he left for California, traveling from New York to San Francisco by way of Panama. He arrived in June and became a professor of Greek and Latin at Pacific Methodist College in Vacaville. In 1866, he left to attend ...