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Article: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO LIBRARIES ACQUIRE PAPERS OF SAN DIEGO PIONEER MORSE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 9, 2008
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The University of California at San Diego issued the following press release:
The University of California, San Diego Libraries have acquired the papers of Ephraim Weed Morse, an energetic and ambitious mover-and-shaker who lived in San Diego from 1850 until his death in 1906, and played a leading role in the development of early San Diego.
The Ephraim W. Morse Family Papers comprise one of the largest and most comprehensive private collections covering San Diego history in the 19th century. The archive includes extensive correspondence between Morse and his business partners and fellow San Diego trail blazers Alonzo Horton and Thomas Whaley, detailing their many plans and schemes for ...