Iowa
Old Press
Lost Nation Press
Lost Nation, Clinton co. Iowa
June 22, 1939
CIVIL WAR VETERAN ATTENDS STATE CONVENTION
Mark Harrison Morse, of Wyoming and a former resident of
Monmouuth, attended the State Department convention at Iowa City
on Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Morse had the distinction of being the
oldest veteran present, at age 97. He served in Company F of the
31st Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. Mr. Morse was born in
New Hampshire October 10, 1841.
[transcribed by K.W., December 2012]