Spinal cord compression. Spinal cord compression develops when the spinal cord is compressed by bone fragments from a vertebral fracture, a tumor, abscess, ruptured intervertebral disc or other lesion.
Early life. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1791. He was the first son of Jedidiah Morse, a clergyman, and Elizabeth Breese, of New Jersey.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, artist and inventor, was born to Jedediah and Elizabeth Morse in Massachusetts in 1791. Though he was an art major at Yale University, he also studied chemistry, natural philosophy, and electricity. Dreaming of becoming a great painter, he then studied art at the Royal Academy in London.