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Jedidiah Morse (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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29 de may. de 2018 · Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), American geographer and clergyman, was most influential for his dissemination of geographical knowledge about the American continent. Jedidiah Morse was born in Woodstock, Conn., on Aug. 23, 1761, the son of a Congregationalist minister.
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.
Overview. Jedidiah Morse. (1761—1826) Quick Reference. (1761–1826), minister of the First Congregational Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, active in missionary work among the Native Americans and also in opposing emergent Unitarianism. Morse's Geography Made Easy (1784), long ...
Scope and arrangement. The papers document the career and personal life of Jedidiah Morse through letters, sermons and his journal of a visit to the Isle of Shoals (August 1805). The letters concern his military discharge (1779), geography and religious matters.
Writings about Morse suggest that he had alienated himself from many of his contemporaries early in his career through his authoritarian brand of Calvinistic republicanism, a perceived contradiction of that style with his entrepreneurial ambitions, his role in the controversial Bavarian Illuminati, and a dispute with a noted New England historian.
