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From: Abram Burnett pravoslavna AT comcast DOT net
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:04:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Did Samuel F.B. Morse Ever Work for the Erie ... ?
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You bet he did ! And on the Honesdale "Branch," no less !






Well, at least Samuel F. B. Morse, the GRANDSON of Old Man Sam, the inventor of the telegraph.






The story comes from a work titled Telegrpahers of Today, by John B. Taltavall, editor of Telegraph Age magazine, published in 1893. (Specifically, vol. 1, page 226 of the cited work, and a photo of Grandson Morse is also shown.)





Since the server which handles the EL List does not support PDF's, I will put the text below and attach the photo. If anyone wants a scan of the original article and photo in PDF format, I will gladly email it.






-- abram burnett,


burgermeister of the turnip patch


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SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE, Grandson of the inventor of the telegraph, now of Chicago, Ills, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 24, 1852. His father, Charles W. Morse, was the eldest son of Professor S. F. B. Morse. He learned the telegraphic art at about the same time he learned his letters, but it was not until 1871 or 1872 that he made any practical use of this knowledge. About this time he decided upon entering the field of telegraphy as a business, and for that purpose continued his practice in the Western Union and Connecticut River Telegraph offices, at Saybrook Junction and Saybrook Point, Conn.   His first position was that of night operator with the American District Telegraph Company, of New York, in the second office opened by them.








Not being pleased with night work, he resigned and accepted a position as an extra telegraph operator on the Honesdale branch of the Erie Railroad. He worked at various offices between Port Jervis and Honesdale, but as he had to work at night quite frequently, he gave that up, and was for quite a while on the extra force in the Western Union's office at 145 Broadway, New York. In 1873 he was made manager of the Lebanon, Pa., Western Union Telegraph office, which position he held until March, 1876, at which time he resigned, to accept a position at the Centennial Exposition with the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. He remained at the Exposition until within a month or two of its close, and then resigned and went back to New York, where he accepted a position with a banking house in Wall street, and his telegraph career practically ended then, though about eight years later he held the position of general ticket agent for a railway and steamboat corporation, and worked his end of the company's private wire. Of late years he has been in the electrical business and for the past three years a member of the firm of Cushing & Morse, Chicago agents of Day's Kerite wire and cables.









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