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Early Life

Samuel Morse: a man, an artist, and an inventor. He knew as a childhood love, he was an

artist. But the thing he did not know was that out of his love of art and curiosity would come

an invention. His invention, now obsolete, was a great weapon of war and means of

communication for everyone. Born April 27, 1791, in Charleston, Mass. Morse was the

oldest son of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. From early on in his

childhood he had a talent in his art. At the age of eight Morse was taken to Phillips

Academy, where his father was a trustee. He was taken to Phillips Academy, where his

father was a trustee. He was unhappy under their rule, and twice as homesick, so he fled

back to Charleston. He entered Yale at 1805, was called home, and did not graduate till

1810. His classmates at Yale admired his art, and he was unknown for his miniatures in

ivory. After his graduation all he wanted to do was study art. His father opposed the idea.

That was the start of all his work.



Hard work had its rewards. His first achievement was of his first love.... Art! Morse

modeled a figure of Hercules in clay. A professor liked it so much, he told Morse to enter it

in a competition. He won the gold medal. Morse submitted another painting, and it was

among the top nine out of the thousands in the exhibit. He returned to Boston hoping to sell

his art. He went through many years before he came the well-known portrait painter.

Socially Morse was successful, but people visited his studio to see his art, but not buy it.

As a young artist in London, he disdained portrait painting. Portraits are all Americans

would buy. Morse wanted to do more then paint portraits. He wanted to do historical
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