Horace J. Morse, born in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, on December 30, 1838, was the thirteenth adjutant general of the State of Connecticut.

Horace J. Morse was an organizer and former vice president of the People’s Trust Company of Brooklyn.

Two years later Morse was appointed Connecticut Adjutant General, serving until the close of the war.

When Horace J. Morse was younger he lived in Lockport, New York, where he received his main education, and then attended Cambridge University in England.

Horace J. Morse died at the age of 92 on March 18, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, after being ill for two months.