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Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown Massachusetts in 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 he started at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts and entered Yale College at only years-old in , where he heard lectures on electricity which was to inform his later inventions.

He graduated from Yale in 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.

By his parents had conceded defeat and Morse set