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Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown Massachusetts in 1791. He was the first child of Jedidiah Morse a Congregational Minister and geographer and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese.

During the course of his life and in the subsequent decades he became more renowned for his inventions, the Morse Code telegraph system in particular, but he was also an accomplished artist and aspiring politician.

In 1799 he started at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts and entered Yale College at only 14-years-old in 1805, where he heard lectures on electricity which was to inform his later inventions.

He graduated from Yale in 1810 and returned to Charlestown where he continued his interest in painting which began at Yale.

But despite encouragement from the infamous Washington Allston, he followed his parents’ wishes to become a bookseller’s apprentice and started as a clerk for Daniel Mallory, his father’s Boston book publisher.

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