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 Ernest Vandiver Jr. was born on July 3, 1918, in Canon, in Franklin County. He was the only child of Vanna Bowers and Samuel Ernest Vandiver Sr. His mother had two children by a previous marriage, which ended with the death of her first husband.