After mining for a couple of years, he found his way to Santa Clara in 1862.
Charles Copeland Morse married Maria Josephine Victoria Langford in 1868.
Kellogg, a Methodist minister, pooled their money to buy a seed-growing enterprise, which became the leading seed producer on the West Coast.
Charles and Maria had five children who grew up in the mansion that a local newspaper dubbed "the house that seed built.
"[2][4] The Charles Copeland Morse House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.