George K. Morehouse, proprietor of the George K. Morehouse Piano & Music Company and one of the representative and influential business men and citizens of New Haven, was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 12, 1864, a son of Edward A. and Mary Louise (Von Kurtz) Morehouse. The father was born in Brooklyn, New York, while the mother was a native of New Orleans, Louisiana.
     George K. Morehouse spent his youthful days under the parental roof and attended the public schools of Brooklyn to the age of eleven years, when he started out to earn his living, securing a position as office boy in the music house of S. T. Gordon & Son, of New York city, with whom he remained for five years, when he resigned to take a more responsible and remunerative position with the music firm known as the Anderson-Wissner Company of Brooklyn. He continued with that firm also for five years and then went on the road as a traveling salesman for twenty years, representing various manufacturers of pianos and musical instruments, traveling from Maine to California and from the Mexican border to Canada. He was considered a very successful musical instrument salesman. He determined to leave the road and in 1906 came to New Haven, where he organized the George K. Morehouse Music & Piano Company, which from the beginning has proven a profitable business enterprise. Few men have a wider acquaintance in music trade circles in the country than has Mr. Morehouse. Moreover, he was one of the organizers of the Connecticut Piano Dealers' Association and has held an executive position in that association for eleven years and is still a member of its advisory board.
     On the 6th of October, 1886. Mr. Morehouse was united in marriage to Miss Belle R. Murray, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Murray, representatives of one of the prominent colonial families of Connecticut. To Mr. and Mrs. Morehouse has been born a daughter, Mrs. E. V. Soons, whose birth occurred in Brooklyn, New York, in 1887. She is a graduate of a New York high school and is now a resident of New Haven and of Prospect Beach. She has become the mother of four children: Edwin Valentine, George William. Marion Roberta and Beatrice S. B. Soons.
     The Morehouse family is well known socially in New Haven and Mr. Morehouse shares in public popularity by reason of the place which he has made for himself in business connections. Opportunity has ever been to him the "call to action," and to it he has made ready response. Ever watchful for advancement, he has progressed step by step and there is no one who speaks with greater authority or from broader experience concerning the music trade of the country. He deserves the success which has come to him as the direct outcome of well directed energy and laudable ambition, combined with a comprehensive and thorough knowledge of the music trade.