A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > Sacramento http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=587 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=35833 Submitted by: California Contributors Article Title: Sacramento Daily Union Article Date: January 1 1875 Article Description: Death of Dr. John F. Morse Article Text: Sacramento Daily Union Friday, January 1, 1875 DR. JOHN F. MORSE No man has ever died in California leaving a larger circle of warmly-attached personal friends than Dr. John F. MORSE, whose death occurred in San Francisco on the 30th ultimo. Dr. MORSE was born in Vermont in 1816. He was educated for a physician, and pursed his medical studies with ardor and enthusiasm which characterized him in all his undertakings. His profession was ever his pride and his delight. He loved it for the opportunities for good to others which it afforded, and which he never neglected to improve; and for the knowledge it conferred on the most interesting and mysterious questions of natural science. Few men have had a larger or more laborious practice, but he continued a student to the time of his death, and he leaves no one in the State more thoroughly and familiarly acquainted with medical literature and science, their history, researches and latest results. Latterly, he was especially interested in all investigations into the subtle relations between material and mental phenomena. He came to California from Brooklyn (where he was a charter member of Plymouth Church) in 1849, arriving on the ship Humboldt, on which he acted as s! urgeon from Acapulco to San Francisco, and immediately settled in Sacramento. In the fall of that year, in connection with Dr. STILLMAN, he opened a hospital at the corner of K and Third streets, on the lot now occupied by NATHAN's clothing store. It is impossible for those who were not here to realize, or even for those who were to recall, the professional labors performed and gratuitous services rendered by Dr. MORSE in the Spring of 1850, when the city was inundated; in the Summer, when it was filled with immigrants, often sick and destitute, and in the Fall, when it was scourged by the cholera. His constitution, not naturally robust, was impaired by constant labor and frequent exposure, and when the Sacramento Union was projected, in March 1851, he was offered a position of editor, which he accepted, and held for about a year. Resuming his profession he continued in active practice in this city until 1863, when he removed to San Francisco. His practice was at all time l! arge, generally limited only by his own strength. In the sick room he was one of the kindest and most sympathetic of men, and each of his patients seemed to be the object of as much care and solicitude as though he had but one. He was also a men of great public spirit, taking a lively interest in every question which affected the community, the State, and the nation. With unusual fluence of speech, and a rapid, impetuous delivery, he was very often called upon for addresses on public occasions, and he became widely known through the State. He was one of the leading Odd Fellows on the Pacific coast, and during the visit to Germany in 1870 he introduced the order into that empire. He spent a great portion of the last five years of his life in traveling on account of failing health. He had uniformly found a sea-voyage beneficial, and about two months ago took passage for Australia. His friends were apprehensive his strength was not sufficient for the journey, and they were right. He went no further than the Hawaiian Islands, and returning reached! home a few days before his death. The peculiar and most marked characteristics of his mind and disposition were an ardor that was impulsive, and a devotion that was heroic. The friends that he loved "he grappled with hooks of steel," and he followed his convictions wherever they led. If tender regrets, kind memories, and grateful recollections could build his monument, no man's would rise higher. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com