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Morse, Samuel Baldwin

educator, clergyman, college president , was born Oct. 26, 1834, in Fayette, Maine. He has filled pastorates in the baptist church in Stockton and Oakland, Cal.; and since 1887 has been president of California college.

MORSE, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE, inventor, artist, author, was born April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Mass. He found- He founded the National Academy of Design in New York, and was its annually elected president for many years. His most wonderful invention, the recording electric telegraph, has been called the greatest triumph which human genius has obtained over space and time.

The first telegraphic message, What hath God wrought, was sent over the wires May 24, 1844, and was dictated by Anna G. Ellis, daughter of the commissioner of patents, who came early in the morning to inform him of the appropriation from congress of thirty thousand dollars for the construction of his first telegraphic line between Baltimore and Washington.

He was the author of Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States; Our Liberties Defended; and Imminent Dangers through Foreign Immigration. He died April 2, 1872, in New York.