Morse, Samuel F. B. (1791-1872)

Name:

Morse, Samuel F. B. (1791-1872)

Title:

Gold Medal, Adelphi Society of Arts, 1813

Other Names:

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese

Born:

04/27/1791

Birthplace:

Charlestown, MA

Died:

04/02/1872

Death Location:

New York, NY

Residence:

Charlestown, MA
New Haven, CT
London, England
Concord, NH
Charleston, SC
New York, NY
Poughkeepsie, NY

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Artist
Portrait painter
Inventor, telegraph and Morse code

Father:

Morse, Jedidiah (1761-1826)

Mother:

Breese, Elizabeth Ann Finley (1766-1828)

Spouse:

(1) Walker, Lucretia Pickering, m. 09/29/1818
(2) Griswold, Sarah E., m. 1848

Children:

Susan Walker, born September 2, 1819; died December 1, 1885; m. Edward Lind
Elizabeth Ann, born March 12, 1821; died March 26, 1821
Charles Walker, born March 17, 1823, died 1887; m. Manette Lansing
James Edward Finley, born January 17, 1825, New Haven, CT; died 1914

Samuel Arthur Breese, born July 24, 1849; died July 17, 1876, New Orleans, LA
Cornelia Livingston, born April 8, 1851; died 1937
William Goodrich, born January 31, 1853; died 1933; m. Katherine Crabbe
Edward Lind, born March 29, 1857; died 1923

Notes:

William Kloss, Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.

Oliver W. Larkin, Samuel F. B. Morse and American Deomcratic Art. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1954.

Carleton Mabee, The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.

Samuel I. Prime, The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL.D., Inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. New York" D. Appleton & Company, 1875.

Paul J. Stati, Samuel F. B. Morse. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989.