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A Memorial of SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, from the CITY OF BOSTON1 Printed by Order of the City Council. MEETING IN FANUEIL HALL In accordance with the request of the City Council, his Honor, the Mayor called a meeting of the citizens in Faneuil Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 16th of April, at 71/2 o'clock, "for the purpose of giving expression tot he feelings of this community on the great loss sustained by the nation in the death of Samuel F.B. Morse.: The meeting was organized by the choice of the following officers:- President. - His Honor William Gaston Vice Presidents. - His Excellency William B. Washburn, William Claflin, H.H. Coolidge, Josiah Quincy, John E. Sanford, Alexander H. Rice, F.W. Lincoln, Otis Norcross, Marshall P. Wilder, Emory Washburn, John H. Clifford, J.M. Wightman, N.B. Shurtleff, Thomas Russell, George B. Upton, E.R. Mudge, Harvey Jewell, Alpheus Hardy, George S. Hillard, Professor J.D. Runkle, S.H. Walley, B.R. Curtis, William Gray, George C. Richardson, Albert Fearing, R.A. Chapman, Horace Gray, Jr., John Wells, J.D. Colt, Seth Ames, Marcus Morton, George B. Loring, Lorenzo Sabine, Hopmer Bartlett, Thomas Aspinwall, William Perkins, J.M. Forbes, Gardner Brewer, Nathan Carruth, Amos A. Lawrence, James L. Little, Francis Bacon, James M. Beebe, Edward Austin, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, Henry L. Pierce, Benkamin E. Bates, Benjamin T. Reed, James T. Fields, Samuel LIttle, M.F. Dickinson, Jr., E.S. Tobey, William B. Spooner, Charles G. Greene, Henry W. Paine, William Whiting, George Lewis, H.O. Houghton, William H. Kent, Edward Atkinson, Charles W. Slack, S.N. Stockwell, Delano A. Goddard, Roland Worthington, George L. Ward, Joseph S. Ropes, William Parsons, Avery Plumer, J.C. Converse, Nathaniel H. Emmons, F.B. Crowninshield, M.J. Bradlee, Charles E. Jenkins, Weston Lewis, W.W. Greenough, T.C. Amory, Charles H. Allen, Samuel C. Cobb, George B. Nicholas, Charles W. Wilder, Alvan Adams, R.B. Forbes, Edward Whitney, Hamilton A. Hill, Nathaniel Adams, Nathan Crowell, George B. Faunce, S.D. Warren, Nathan Matthews, Cyrus Wakefield, Nehemiah Gibson, G.W. Pope. Secretaries. Charles F. Wood, William G. Blanchard, John F. Kennard. The Mayor read the resolution passed by the National Telegraph Association, and said,-- Ladies and Gentlemen, - Several distinguished citizens have consented to appear here to-night and address you. They are gentlemen known here and everywhere in the country, and there will, therefore, be no occasion to announce them otherwise than by their names. I will first introduce to you the Honorable Josiah Quincy. Mr. Quincy then read the following resolutions: -- Resolved. That the City of Boston, in common with the rest of the country, and the whole civilized world, feel sensibly the loss which science has sustained in the death of Professor Morse, whose great invention has been incalculable value to all the interests of life, and has conferred lasting honor upon his country. Resolved, That it is peculiarly incumbent upon us to express our sense of the loss which the world has sustained in the death of the eminent benefactor of the human race, from the fact that he was born among us, and that his early training was drawn from the institutions of New England. Other links about Samuel F.B. Morse
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