Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 588 pages of information about Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals.

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 588 pages of information about Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals.

The funeral services were held on Friday, April 5, at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church.  At eleven o’clock the long procession entered the church in the following order:—­

Rev. Wm. Adams, D.D., Rev. F.B.  Wheeler, D.D.

COFFIN.

PALL-BEARERS.

William Orton, Cyrus W. Field,
Daniel Huntington, Charles Butler,
Peter Cooper, John A. Dix,
Cambridge Livingston, Ezra Cornell.

The Family.

Governor Hoffman and Staff. 
Members of the Legislature. 
Directors of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company. 
Directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company and officers and
  operators. 
Members of the National Academy of Design. 
Members of the Evangelical Alliance. 
Members of the Chamber of Commerce. 
Members of the Association for the Advancement of Science and Art. 
Members of the New York Stock Exchange. 
Delegations from the Common Councils of New York, Brooklyn and
  Poughkeepsie and many of the Yale Alumni. 
The Legislative Committee:  Messrs. James W. Husted, L. Bradford Prince,
  Samuel J. Tilden, Severn D. Moulton and John Simpson.

The funeral address, delivered by Dr. Adams, was long and eloquent, and near the conclusion he said:—­

“To-day we part forever with all that is mortal of that man who has done so much in the cause of Christian civilization.  Less than one year ago his fellow-citizens, chiefly telegraphic operators, who loved him as children love a father, raised his statue in Central Park.  To-day all we can give him is a grave.  That venerable form, that face so saintly in its purity and refinement, we shall see no more.  How much we shall miss him in our homes, our churches, in public gatherings, in the streets and in society which he adorned and blessed.  But his life has been so useful, so happy and so complete that, for him, nothing remains to be wished.  Congratulate the man who, leaving to his family, friends and country a name spotless, untarnished, beloved of nations, to be repeated in foreign tongues and by sparkling seas, has died in the bright and blessed hope of everlasting life.

“Farewell, beloved friend, honored citizen, public benefactor, good and faithful servant!”

The three Morse brothers were united in death as they had been in life.  In Greenwood Cemetery a little hill had been purchased by the brothers and divided into three equal portions.  On the summit of the hill there now stands a beautiful three-sided monument, and at its base reposes all that is mortal of these three upright men, each surrounded by those whom they had loved on earth, and who have now joined them in their last resting place.

Resolutions of sympathy came to the family from all over the world, and from bodies political, scientific, artistic, and mercantile, and letters of condolence from friends and from strangers.

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