Samuel Finley Breese Morse was bom in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on Wednesday April 27, 1791. This was some 70 years before Darwin’s theory of evolution did any damage to general acceptance of creation.
Samuel was the eldest of three sons born to Dr. Jedediah Morse, a well-known clergyman and author of geography books. The well-to-do family had high expectations of their sons. The boys were educated at a Christian boarding school, and then at Yale College.
As part of his studies at Yale, Samuel saw demonstrations of electricity, which at that stage had not been put to any useful purpose. He also experimented with a camera obscura—a primitive forerunner of the photographic camera. However, the image made by the camera obscura was only temporary. Samuel’s real interest though was in drawing, and he began to develop his talents in his spare time. Unfortunately, Samuel’s father believed that being an artist was not a suitable occupation for a gentleman.
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