June: Address of Eldridge Morse

Eldridge Morse as a young man in an undated photograph. The Featured Image is by Gilbert Horten, circa 1885, taken from Avenue D and First looking east up then called Front Street — the Athenaeum Building is on the left.
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“and we become the children of the past, as well as the parents of the future.”

Eldridge Morse
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And what is the work by which we hope to ‘leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time?'”

Eldridge Morse
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“… your noble work [will] be perpetuated forever and ever.”

Eldridge Morse
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The Northern Star, Volume 1, Number 22, 10 June 1876
Eldridge Morse with the Snohomish elite. Photograph by Gilbert Horten, circa 1885. Enlarge.

Learn more about the Snohomish Elite at Stop #2 of the Early Snohomish Heritage Trail pictured on the Home Page.

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