Early Life
Breese was born in 1800 in Whitesboro, New York, the son of Arthur Breese and Catherine Livingston, daughter of Henry Beekman Livingston and a member of the Livingston family. His brother was Samuel Livingston Breese, and he was a cousin of Samuel Morse.
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