Samuel Morey
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Samuel Morey was an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.
1909 illustration by A. C. Gow which appeared as the frontispiece in a 1915 biography
The Samuel Morey Memorial Bridge in Orford, NH
US Patent X306 (Force from Water with Assist of Steam) issued in November 1800
Orford, New Hampshire
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Orford is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,237 at the 2020 census, unchanged from the 2010 census. The Appalachian Trail crosses in the east.
Samuel Morey
…he was the second of seven children born to Israel Morey (1735–1809) and Martha Palmer (1733–1810) and was born in Hebron, Connecticut, but moved to Orford, New Hampshire, with his family in 1768. His father Israel Morey served in the colonial militia and rapidly rose from private to general. Samuel Morey operated a…
Orford, NH, from the west
The Ridge c. 1912
Connecticut River Valley c. 1907, with Orford from Fairlee, Vermont
The Mall c. 1906