JOSEPH WESTON MORGAN
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 68

Joseph Weston Morgan, serving in an able and efficient manner 
as County Recorder of Mohave County, an office which he has 
twice before filled with equal credit has been a resident of 
this section of Arizona for more than twenty five years and 
has done a great deal during that time to promote its mining 
interests. He was born in San Francisco, on the 24th of 
October 1854, a son of Benjamin and Eliza (Prichard) Morgan, 
natives of South Wales. The father crossed the Atlantic on 
the brig Norman, sailing directly from Liverpool by way of 
the Isthmus of Panama, to San Francisco where he arrived 
September 1849.  Three years later the mother made the 
journey across the Atlantic and came from New York around 
Cape Horn in the clipper ship N.B. Palmer, joining her 
husband in San Francisco.

Joseph W. Morgan acquired his education in the public 
schools of San Francisco and Sacramento and in 1867 laid 
aside his books.  Leaving his native city he went to 
Virginia City, Nevada. He resided there and in Sacramento 
until February 24, 1880 when he came to Arizona, settling 
first in Phoenix and later in Globe and finally in Mohave 
County.  His business career has been devoted entirely to 
mining and he is an expert in this field.  He was with the 
Golden Gem at Cerbat in Mohave County and was afterward 
connected with the C.O.D. Mine in the same section, acting 
as foreman for these mines.

Mr. Morgan was married in Kingman in 1893 to Miss Marian L. 
Terry, of Texas and they have one son, Joseph Terry.

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