Godfrey Morse was a Jewish-American lawyer from Massachusetts.
12 Facts About Godfrey Morse
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Godfrey Morse immigrated to America when he was eight and lived in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Godfrey Morse entered Harvard College in 1867, and while there he was editor of The Harvard Advocate and manager of the first Harvard crew to be taken abroad and row against Oxford.
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Godfrey Morse then went to Harvard Law School, graduating from there in 1872.
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Godfrey Morse taught English literature and arithmetic in the Boston Evening High School in the winter of 1872.
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Godfrey Morse practiced law in Boston for the rest of his life, and his later became associated with Lee M Friedman and Percy A Atherton.
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Godfrey Morse was a member of the Boston School Committee from 1876 to 1878.
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Godfrey Morse served on the Boston Common Council from 1882 to 1883 and was elected its president in 1883.
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Godfrey Morse was a delegate to the 1896 National Democratic Party Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, and from 1897 to 1898 he was chairman of the Massachusetts State Committee and the Boston City Committee of the National Democratic Party.
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Godfrey Morse was a director of the Allouez Mining Company, a trustee of the American Surety Company of New York, Master of the local Freemason lodge, and a member of the University Club of Boston, the Boston Athletic Association, the Criterion Club, and the Manhattan Club.
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Godfrey Morse died in Dresden, Germany while visiting there with his wife on June 20,1911.
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Godfrey Morse's body was returned to America on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II.