Ancestry of
Samuel F. B. Morse

Painter and Co-Inventor of Morse Code

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

View famous kin of Samuel Finley Breese Morse

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Jedidiah Morse 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Apr 1791 
  • Birth Location:
  • at the foot of Breed's Hill, Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Apr 1872 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York 
  • Notes: 
  • Painter and inventor (telegraph and morse code).

• Sources for Samuel Finley Breese Morse

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/10/2011).
  • ² Bowen, Daniel, The Family of Griffith Bowen, Gentleman, Welsh Puritan Immigrant, Boston, Mass., 1638-9, Especially the Branch of . . ., Jacksonville, Florida: DaCosta Printing Company (1893), 31.
  • ³ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 260.
  • ⁴ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History, Volume 4, July 1778-June 1792, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1907), 297.
  • ⁵ Lamb, Mrs. Martha J. and Mrs. Burton Harrison, History of the City of New York: Its Origin Rise, and Progress, Volume 3, New York: The A. S. Barnes Company (1896), 745.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Samuel Morse", (accessed 05/10/2011).
  • ⁸ Youmans, William Jay, ed., Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of their Lives and Scientific Work, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 234.