Samuel morse biography summary organizers

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It was characteristic of Morse that the first money which he received from the actual sale of his patent rights ($45 for the right to use his patent on a short line from the Post-Office to the National Observatory in Washington) was devoted bygd him to a religious purpose. From a letter of October 20, , we learn that, adding $5 to this sum, he presented $25 to a Sunday School, and $25 to the fund for repairs.

The attachment of the three Morse brothers to each other was intense, and lasted to the end of their lives. The letters of Finley Morse to his brother Sidney, in particular, would alone fill a volume and are of great interest. Most of them have never before been published and I shall quote from them freely in following Morse&#;s career.

Sidney and his family were still in europe, and the two following extracts are from letters to him:

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Samuel Finley Breeze Morse: Artist -- Inventor by Robert Eaton Morse Assembly Room, A. K. Smiley Public Library

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Summary

Samuel Finley Breeze Morse is a man whose name is recognized by all as the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph, but whose substantial artistic achievements, paradoxically, are known to few. He was an enormously complex, and at times contradictory figure, heroically enmeshed in every aspect of an imperfect American society that he was determined to reshape with the potent agency of pictures, pamphlets, lectures, inventions, and institutions that were the specific sites of his ideology.

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Biography of the author

The author, Robert Eaton Morse was born in Franklin, New Jersey in He attended Williams College and graduated from the University of Virginia. During World War 11 he served in the Army Air Corps from - His Masters degree was earned at New York University with subsequent Doctoral work at Ohio State, Wayne