Personal Life
His first wife, Lydia, died in Old Town in 1856. In 1865, Morse brought New Hampshire schoolteacher Mary C. Walker to serve in the local school. The two married on December 20, 1866. By his first wife he had one son, Edward, who eventually resettled in newly-incorporated Merrimac, Massachusetts, formerly West Amesbury. Morse died on January 17, 1906.
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