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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse, Sidney Edwards 1794-1871 (search)
Morse, Sidney Edwards 1794-1871 Journalist; born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 7, 1794; brother of Samuel F. B.; graduated at Yale College in 1811, and in the next two years he wrote a series of newspaper articles against the multiplication of new States in the South. He studied law in Litchfield, Conn., and in 1815 established the Boston Recorder, the first religious newspaper issued in America. He prepared a geography for schools; and in 1823, in connection with his younger brother (Richard Cary), he founded the New York Observer, the oldest weekly newspaper in New York City. In 1834 he invented a process for making maps and outline pictures to be printed topographically, which he named cerography. It was first used in making a geography for schools, of which more than 100,000 copies were printed and disposed of the first year. The last years of his life were devoted to the inventing and perfecting of a bathometer for rapid explorations of the depths of the sea. He died in N