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Morse, Jedidiah

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Morse, Jedidiah (1761–1826)

US minister and geographer. Morse was known as the ‘father of geography’, for such texts as The American Geography (1789) and The American Universal Geography (2 volumes 1796).

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale (1783), staying there to study for the ministry, teaching school to support his studies, and writing the first US geography textbook, Geography Made Easy (1784), later reprinted in some 25 editions. After several short-term preaching assignments, he settled in the First Congregation Church, Charlestown, Massachusetts (1789–1819). He defended orthodox Calvinist tenets in the church, publishing the Panopolist (1805–10) and establishing the Andover Theological Seminary (1808). He helped found the American Bible Society (1816).



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