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Jedediah Morse
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- Father of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, Jedediah Morse (1761–1826) is sometimes called the father of American geography. After studying divinity at Yale, starting at age 14 and graduating in 1783, Morse became a prominent evangelical Calvinist preacher and man of letters in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston, for 30 years. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Morse, Jedediah (1761–1826)]
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