AMAZING INVENTORS INNOVATORS SAMUEL MORSE LYNN DAVIS Consulting Editor Diane Craig M A Reading Specialist Super Sandcastle An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
WHO WAS HE SAMUEL MORSE Samuel Morse was an American innovator He didn't invent the telegraph But he knew he could make it better He also helped invent Morse code Morse telegraph key Morse telegraph receiver
SAMUEL MORSE BORN April 27 1791 Charlestown Massachusetts FIRST MARRIAGE Lucretia Pickering Walker September 29 1818 Concord New Hampshire They had three children Susan Charles and James She died in 1825 SECOND MARRIAGE Sarah Elizabeth Griswold August 10 1848 Utica New York They had four children Samuel Cornelia William and Edward DIED April 2 1872 New York New York
