Morse (Samuel F.B.) is born in Charlestown.

The son of Rev. Jedidiah and Elizabeth (Finley) Morse, Samuel Morse is born at 201 Main Street, graduates from Yale College, studies painting with Benjamin West in London, and returns to Boston, where he works initially as a miniaturist in the Sears Crescent Building. After moving to New York City in 1823, he turns to inventing in 1837, and goes on to develop the first successful telegraph and the code that is named for him in 1844.* Described as “The American Leonardo” by one of his biographers, Morse dies in New York on April 2, 1872, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.