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Samuel Morse
Morse in 1866
Born	Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-04-27)April 27, 1791 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	April 2, 1872(1872-04-02) (aged 80) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Green-Wood Cemetery, New York City 40\u00b039\u203202\u2033N 73\u00b059\u203240\u2033W / 40.650486\u00b0N 73.9943314\u00b0W / 40.650486; -73.9943314
Education	Phillips Academy Yale College Royal Academy of Arts
Occupations	Inventor painter
Known for	Inventing Morse code
Spouses	\n Lucretia Pickering Walker \n (m. 1818; died 1825) \n Sarah Elizabeth Griswold \n (m. 1848)
Children	7
Father	Jedidiah Morse
Relatives	Sidney Edwards Morse (brother)
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 \u2013 April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.\n

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Year\n	Title\n	Image\n	Collection\n	Comments\n
1820	Latham Avery (c. 1820), oil on canvas (attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse)	view		Subject: lived 1775\u20131845; husband of Betsey Wood Lester (m. 1816). IAP 8E110005\n
1820	Mrs. Latham Avery (c. 1820), oil on canvas (attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse)			Subject: Betsey Wood Lester (1787\u20131837). IAP 8E110006\n

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Transatlantic cable

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Samuel Morse

Talks

29 September, 1818