LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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Transcribed by Deb.


"Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol 2" by Henry Howe. (pub 1888)

Lake County
Page  52


     John Flavial Morse, born in Massachusetts in October 1801, removed
with his father to Kirtland in 1816.  He was a third time member of the Ohio
legislature in 1848, when, in connection with Dr. N. S. Townshend, he was 
instrumental in the election of Salmon P. Chase to the United States Senate, and 
in the repeal of the Black Laws.  (See Vol. I., page 100)  In 1851 he was 
Speaker of the Ohio house of representatives; in 1860 elected to the State 
senate.  In 1861 was captain of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  In 
1862 Secretary Chase offered him employment on the public buildings, in which 
service he continued until 1876.  Mr. Morse died January 30, 1884.