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TITLE : Research on Samuel Morse

PROGRAM : Bachelor in Corporate Communication

SUBJECT : Organizational Communication Skill – JCS 2163

LECTURER : Mrs. Zurinah Zakariah

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|MUHD SYAZWAN BIN ABD RAZAK |4132001201 |

SAMUEL MORSE
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (27th April, 1791 – 2nd April, 1872) was an American painter who turned inventor. Already well-known as a portrait painter, in his middle age he contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, was a co-inventor of the Morse code, and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. Morse married Lucretia Pickering Walker on 29th September 1818, in Concord, New Hampshire. She died on 7th February, 1825, shortly after the birth of their third child (Susan b. 1819, Charles b. 1823, James b. 1825). He married his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold on 10th August, 1848 in Utica, New York and had four children’s: Samuel b. 1849, Cornelia b. 1851, William b. 1853, Edward b. 1857.
BIRTH AND EDUCATION
Samuel F.B. Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse who was also a geographer—and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. His father was a great preacher of the Calvinist faith and supporter of the American Federalist party. He thought it helped preserve Puritan traditions (strict observance of Sabbath, among other things), and believed in the

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