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Godfrey Morse
Godfrey Morse (May 19, 1846 – June 20, 1911) was a German-born Jewish-American lawyer from Massachusetts. Life Morse was born on May 19, 1846 in Wachenheim, Bavaria, the son of Jacob Maas Morse and Charlotte Mehlinger. His brother was American Congressman Leopold Morse. Morse immigrated to America when he was eight and lived in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Brimmer Grammar School, the Boston English High School, and the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard College in 1867, and while there he was editor of ''The'' ''Harvard Advocate'' and manager of the first Harvard crew to be taken abroad and row against Oxford. He graduated from Harvard in 1870 with an A.B., the first Jew from Boston to graduate from Harvard. He then went to Harvard Law School, graduating from there in 1872. After graduating, he studied law in the office of law firm Brooks & Ball. He also taught English literature and arithmetic in the Boston Evening High School in the winter of 1872. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wachenheim
Wachenheim an der Weinstraße (formerly called ''Wachenheim im Speyergau'') is a small town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, roughly 1 km south of Bad Dürkheim and 20 km west of Ludwigshafen. It is known above all else for its various businesses in the field of winegrowing, and in particular for Sekt. Geography Location Wachenheim lies in the Middle Haardt at the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest and is also the seat of the eponymous ''Verbandsgemeinde'', to which also belong the neighbouring places of Friedelsheim, Gönnheim and Ellerstadt, themselves also characterized by winegrowing and also partly by fruitgrowing. History Antiquity The first traces of settlement in the Wachenheim area come from the early Iron Age (550 BC to 1). At this time, Celts were settling in the Upper Rhine Plain area. About 60 BC, Germanic tribes, presumably the Nemetes, pushed into the region and drove the Celts out. The Romans intervened in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
