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INTELLIGENCE has already been received in this country of the death of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the eminent electrician, who died at New York on the 2nd inst. at the age of eighty-one. Prof. Morse was the son of the Rev. Jedediah Morse, well known as a geographer, and was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the 27th of April, 1791. He was educated at Yale College, but, having determined to become a painter, he came to England in 1811, formed a friendship with Leslie, and in 1813 exhibited at the Royal Academy a colossal picture of “The Dying Hercules.” He returned to America, and for a few years followed the profession of a portrait painter. In 1829 he again visited England, and on his return voyage was accompanied by Prof. Jackson, the eminent American chemist and geologist, through whose influence he turned his attention to the conduction of electricity through metallic wire, a subject in which the chemical tastes displayed by him while at College gave him additional interest, and to which he now devoted the whole powers of his mind.
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Professor S. F. B. Morse . Nature 5, 509 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005509a0
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