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Jedidiah Morse [1] (August 23, 1761 – June 9, 1826) was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
Jedidiah Morse (born Aug. 23, 1761, Woodstock, Conn., U.S.—died June 9, 1826, New Haven, Conn.) was an American Congregational minister and geographer, who was the author of the first textbook on American geography published in the United States, Geography Made Easy (1784).
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May 29, 2018 · Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) was a Congregational minister, a founder of Andover Theological Seminary and Park Street Church, and a pioneer of American geography. He wrote several influential books on geography, history, and theology, based on his own travels and research.
abstract. Despite numerous and significant writings by historians of geography. biographers from other disciplines, and his authorship of the first geography written in and for the new American republic, most geographers are largely the contributions of Jedidiah Morse in academic geography.
Mar 17, 1995 · A biography of Jedidiah Morse, a clergyman, geographer, and father of Samuel Morse, who struggled with the tensions between republican and liberal values in post-Revolutionary America. The book explores his psychological dilemma, his role in religious controversies, and his financial ruin.
A collection of letters, sermons and journals of Jedidiah Morse, a Congregational clergyman and the \"father of geography\" in the U.S. The papers cover his religious, geographical and social activities from 1779 to 1850.
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Despite numerous and significant writings by historians of geography and biographers from other disciplines, and his authorship of the first geography textbooks written in and for the new American re...
