Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
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Morse, Samuel Finley, 1791-1872
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese (American painter and inventor, 1791-1872)
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Morse, Samuel, b. 1792.
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Morse, Samuel.
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, active 1806-1860, scientist
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Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese), 1791-1872
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Breese Morse, Samuel Finley 1791-1872
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breeze
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Morse, Samuel F. B. 1791-1872 (Samuel Finley Breese),
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Morse, S. F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese), 1791-1872
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, fl. 1806-1860
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Morze, Samuil 1791-1872
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Samuel Finley Breeze Morse
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Morse, S. F. B. 1791-1872
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Morse, S. F. B.
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Morse, S. F. B. 1791-1872 (Samuel Finley Breese),
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Painter, inventor; New York, N.Y. and London, England.
Author of account concerning deportation of 1100 workers and I.W.W. sympathizers from Bisbee to Columbus, N.M., July 12, 1917.
Artist and inventor.
American telegraph inventor.
American artist and inventor of the telegraph.
Before becoming famous as the inventor of the telegraph (patented in 1837), Morse had a successful career as a painter. He was a founder of the National Academy of Design and its president from 1826 to 1842.
Farmer and missionary.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American artist and inventor. He studied art in Europe, and had success as a painter and sculptor. His interest in chemistry and especially electrical phenomena led to several inventions, notably the telegraph, from which he achieved wealth and lasting fame.
American artist, inventor.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), artist and inventor, graduated from Yale in 1910. He studied painting in England from 1811-1815 and achieved some success in portrait painting particularly in Charleston, South Carolina (1818-1821). After 1832, when the idea of the telegraph obsessed him, Morse gave up painting to devote himself to inventing.
Inventor of the telegraph, artist, founder of Vassar College.
Epithet: scientist
Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, inventor and painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), graduated from Yale College in 1810. Morse attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England and began a successful career in painting in Europe and the United States. In 1832, Morse developed the concept of the single-wire telegraph and Morse code. In 1938, Morse proposed his patent to the U.S. Government and the Republic of Texas, but failed to gain sponsorship. Morse succeeded in securing funding from the U.S. Government after a successful demonstration in 1842.
Born in Vance County, North Carolina, Memucan Hunt (1807-1856) was a planter and businessman in Mississippi before joining the Texan Army during the Texas Revolution. In 1837, Hunt became the first Minister of Texas to the United States. A year later, President Mirabeau B. Lamar appointed Hunt as Texas Secretary of the Navy.
Source: Neu, C. T. “Hunt, Memucan,” Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed on February 17, 2011. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhu31.
Portrait artist, inventor of the telegraph.
Morse purchased the Locust Grove property in 1847 and remodeled the house into a Tuscan Villa in conjunction with his architect, Alexander Jackson Davis. In 1901 his heirs sold the estate to William H. Young.
Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, inventor and painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), graduated from Yale College in 1810.
Morse attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England and began a successful career in painting in Europe and the United States. In 1832, Morse developed the concept of the single-wire telegraph and Morse code. In 1938, Morse proposed his patent to the U.S. Government and the Republic of Texas, but failed to gain sponsorship. Morse succeeded in securing funding from the U.S. Government after a successful demonstration in 1842.
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Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
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Hopkinton (Mass.)
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Arizona--Bisbee
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Young-Morse Historic Site (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
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New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
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Locust Grove (N.Y. : Estate)
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Bisbee (Ariz.)
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