From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). -

Born March 10, 1812 in Newburyport, Massachusetts; brother of Edward Bass Morss; amateur organbuilder in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1830s-1840s; piano tuner until 1860; died October 23, 1860, in Portland, Maine.

Sources:

• Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 143.


• Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 408.


• Stephen Pinel.