Biography of Samuel MorseSamuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charleston, Massachusetts. He was born into a wealthy family with two younger brothers named Sidney and Richard. His father, Jedidiah Morse, was a pastor, writer, geographer, and congregational minister. His mother was Elizabeth Ann Breese. When Samuel grew older, he married a woman named Lucretia. Together they had three children, Susan (the eldest), Charles (the middle child), and Finley (the youngest), who was named after Samuel. Shortly after having Finley, Lucretia died and Samuel later remarried one of his cousins. She was only twenty-six but he married her because she was deaf and mute and so he felt she could depend on him. Morse's family grew with several more children. When Samuel was eight years old, he attended Phillip's Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where his father was a trustee. Samuel was an unstable student who always got into trouble because he drew and didn't pay attention. In 1805, he entered Yale College and graduated in 1810. Soon after, he convinced his parents to send him to London to study painting. He lived in England from 1811 to 1815 and entered the Royal Academy in 1813. Samuel began work after graduating from Yale College as a clerk with a Boston book publisher. Another job he did was painting which he studied in the United States and Europe. He opened a workshop to paint portraits, but without much success. People went to his studio to see his works but not to buy them. Soon after, he went from house to house asking people if they wanted their portrait painted for $15, but he didn't get that either. Later in life he taught art at the City University of New York. He also ran for mayor of New York several times, but always lost. Samuel Morse contributed many things to American society. In 1832, while returning from Europe after a period of artistic study on the ship Sully, Samuel overheard a conversation about newly discovered electromagnets and came up with the idea of ​​an electric telegraph. In 1835, his first telegraph model operated in the New York University building. In 1837, he acquired two partners to help him develop his telegraph. Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail were the two men he chose. They filed a patent in 1837 for the telegraph, which included the dot and dash code..