John Torrey Morse
Engraving of author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. from Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse, published by Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1896
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.’[1]
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
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