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Title: The Scotch-Irish in America : proceedings and addresses of the fourth congress, at Atlanta, Ga., April 28 to May 1, 1892
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Scotch-Irish Society of America
Subjects: Scots-Irish in the United States
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
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onstruct the navy of his country withthe new steam power he had discovered, the energies of his delicatenature were overtaxed, and he fell a victim to disease on February4, 1815, in his fiftieth year. The Scotch-Irish race have great reason to be proud of the nameof Kobert Fulton. His wonderful genius and splendid achievementswould be an honor to any people. Prof. Samuel Finley Breese Morse is the second distinguished inventor of the Scotch-Irish race towhom your attention is invited. Prof. Morse was born inCharleston, Mass., on April 27, 1791. He was the son of Eev.Jedediah Morse, a prominent minister of the CongregationalChurch of New England. His mother was Elizabeth AnnBreese of New York City, the granddaughter of Eev. Dr.Samuel Finley, a distinguished Scotch-Irish clergyman, and anhonored President of Princeton College. Prof. Morse belongs tothe Scotch-Irish race through his mother, and there is no betterchannel through which to get the blood. By both sides of the fam- M5&i6%
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THE INVENTORS OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH RACE. 179 ily he had a line of ancestry remarkable for their superior intellec-tual endowments and culture, as well as their nobleness and integ-rity of character. His future life exhibited the fact that he wasworthy of his noble heritage and honored sires. The father relates the interesting incident that Eev. Dr. With-erspoon, the successor of Dr. Finley as President of Princeton Col-lege, came on a visit to him sometime after the birth of the son,and being much affected by the interview with the granddaughterof his predecessor, he took the infant son in his arms, and, lookingup to God, invoked the divine benediction upon the life of the child.It was a touching scene, which the father and mother never forgot.They little dreamed, however, of the amazing blessings which wereto come to the world through that life which then received the ben-ediction of the man of God. The early education of young Samuel Finley Horse was watchedover very carefully by his

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