ARTHUR C. MORSE
Arthur C. Morse, sales manager of the Crocker-Wheeler
Company of New York, engaged in the building of motors and generators,
with offices at No. 129 Church street, New Haven, was born in Norwood,
Massachusetts, July 27, 1876, and is a son of Herbert Francis and Cora
Clayton (Carr) Morse, who were also natives of the Old Bay state. The father
was born at Norwood and after living there for a long period engaged in
the furniture business in Boston as the head of the Morse, Haley &
Boyden Furniture Company. He remained in Boston until 1883, when death
called him to the home beyond. His widow survives and is now living in
Summit, New Jersey. They were the parents of two children, the younger
being Lillian E., also a resident of Summit.
In his boyhood Arthur C. Morse attended the
Roxbury Latin school from which he was graduated with the class of 1895.
His college course was pursued at Amherst. where he took up academic work
and won the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899. In that year he entered the
employ of the Western Electric Company of New York city, cpntinuing with
that corporation for a decade. He started in the humble capacity of messenger
and rose to the position of sales engineer. He next entered the New Bedford
Copper Company as New York sales manager, continuing in that position for
three years or until 1913, when he became connected with the Crocker-Wheeler
Company of New York. He came to New Haven as sales manager and has since
remained in that position, controlling the interests of the company at
this point.
On the 2d of June, 1917, at Summit, New Jersey,
Mr. Morse was united in marriage to Miss Isabella Elizabeth Neely. He has
been quite active in public and semi-public affairs here, having been appointed
a member of the committee of public health and sanitation of the chamber
of commerce. He belongs to the Quinnipiac Club and is a master mason, belonging
to the Overlook Lodge at Summit, New Jersey. He is likewise a member of
the Masonic Club and of the Rotary Club of New Haven in which he was chairman
of organization, and la now vice president. He belongs to the Calvary Baptist
church. He stands very high in business circles throughout the city and
ranks with the best known young men of New Haven. He has advanced step
by step through his own efforts, developing his power through exercise,
and each year has found him more able to solve important business problems
than the year before.
Modern History of New Haven
and
Eastern New Haven County
Illustrated
Volume II
New York – Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1918
pgs 605 - 606
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