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Jedidiah Morse[1] (August 23, 1761 – June 9, 1826) was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
But subsequent, intellectual movements sealed Morse's fate as a forgotten geographer (to most), ing the end of the Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Darwinism, "new," process-based geographical thinking inspired by Carl Ritter, Alexander. Humboldt, and Arnold Guyot.
Aug 19, 2024 · Jedidiah Morse 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). His geographical writings dominated the field in the United States until his death.
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Abstract Despite numerous and significant writings by historians of geography and biographers from other disciplines, and his authorship of the first geography textbooks written in and for the new ...
May 26, 2011 · Elements of geography, exhibited historically, from the creation to the end of the world: on a new plan .. by Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826
First, the 23-year-old Morse wrote a geography book for his young students. He kept working on geography after he was made pastor of a Congregational church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston.
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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.
