Sidney Edwards Morse was an American inventor, geographer and journalist. He was the brother of telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel F. B. Morse.
Sidney E. Morse
Morse and Samuel Breese, Texas, 1844
Jedidiah Morse was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "father of American geography."
Portrait by son Samuel Morse, c.1810–11. Yale University Art Gallery
Morse's gravestone at the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.