When Samuel Finley Brown Morse was born on 18 July 1885, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, George Washington Morse, was 39 and his mother, Clara Rebecca Boit, was 34. He married Annie Camden Johnson Thompson in June 1907, in California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Judicial Township 4, Kern, California, United States in 1910. He died on 10 May 1969, in Pebble Beach, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 83.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Welsh and English: variant of Morris .
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames, especially Moses . Compare Morris .
History: Samuel Morse (1791–1872), inventor of the electric telegraph andof Morse code, was a direct descendant of Anthony Morse of Wiltshire,England, who had emigrated to MA in 1635.
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