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    Samuel F. B. Morse

    1791-1872

    Quick Facts

    FULL NAME: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
    BORN: April 27, 1791
    DIED: April 2, 1872
    BIRTHPLACE: Charlestown, Massachusetts
    SPOUSE: Lucretia Walker (1818-1825) and Sarah Griswold (1848-1872) CHILDREN: Susan, Charles, James, Samuel, Cornelia, William, and Edward
    ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus

    Early Years

    Samuel F.

    B. Morse was the first child of clergyman Jedidiah Morse and Elisabeth Finley Morse. His parents were committed to his education and instilling in him the Calvinist faith. After a mediocre showing at Phillips Academy, save for a strong interest in art, his parents sent him to Yale College.

    Samuel’s record at Yale wasn’t much better, though he found interest in lectures on electricity and focused intensely on his art.

    Education

    After graduating from Yale in 1810, Morse wished to pursue a career as a painter, but his father desired a more substantial profession and arranged for him to apprentice at a bookstore/publisher in Boston, Ma