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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
- Child of Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Breese Morse
- Married to Sarah Elizabeth Griswold
- Dated 27 April 1791 CE – 2 April 1872 CE
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- child of (mother) Elizabeth Breese Morse mother of Samuel F. B. Morse
- child of (father) Jedidiah Morse American geographer and clergyman (1761-1826)
- parent of (child) Charles Walker Morse
- parent of (child) Leila Morse (1851-1937)
- parent of (child) Samuel Arthur Breese Morse, Jr.
- sibling of Richard Cary Morse American Presbyterian minister and journalist (1795-1868)
- sibling of Sidney Edwards Morse American inventor, journalist, and geographer
- married to Sarah Elizabeth Griswold (c1827-1875)
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