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John Torrey Morse

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Name
  
John Morse

Role
  
Biographer

Died
  
1937


John Torrey Morse

Books
  
John Quincy Adams A, Life and letters of Oliver We, Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, The life of Alexander Hamilton

John Torrey Morse (1840–1937) was an American historian and biographer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Jan. 9, 1840, and lived in that city as a lawyer. Morse was the editor of the ‘American Statesmen Series,’ and published biographies of Alexander Hamilton in two volumes, considered his most significant work, He also wrote biographies on John and J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin, and Dr. Holmes. Morse also authored ‘Banks and Banking’, ‘Arbitration and Award’ and ‘Famous Trials.’

Works

  • Famous trials (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
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • References

    John Torrey Morse Wikipedia


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