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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.
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.
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 ...
This research considers several important questions about Jedidiah Morse that appear to have gone largely unconsidered by geographers about Morse's influ- ence in geography.
Jedidiah Morse is the center of this inquiry because, as an alarmist and a controversialist, he loudly announced a moment of crisis through his sermons on the Bavarian Illuminati, a particularly hysterical episode in the religio-politics of the early republic.
Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) born in Woodstock, Connecticut, was a Congregational clergyman known as the "father of geography". After his graduation from Yale College in 1783, he entered the ministry. Licensed to preach in 1785, he was ordained a year later.
