Bath, Maine’s Charlie Morse: Ice King and Wall Street Scoundrel

(History Press) This biography explores Morse, who was born in Bath, Maine, in 1857. Later he created companies to form a monopoly on the sale of natural ice in New York City, and then turned to coastal steamboats, again forming many companies into one large one. Morse became a Wall Street insider and the worst kind of speculator. He became extremely wealthy but by the end of 1907 he was broke and by 1910 he was in jail. Woods retired from AT&T and moved to Maine, where he researched Morse, a member of his wife’s family.