Contra Costa-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Morgan, Jeremiah 1818 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JEREMIAH MORGAN.—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this
work, was born in the Cherokee Nation, on the banks of the Tennessee river,
Alabama, June 8, 1818, and resided in that State until he attained the age of
nine years, when he moved with his parents to Jefferson county, Illinois. After
a residence of two years in that county, he moved to Clinton county, in the same
State, where he dwelt six years Now he transferred his dwelling to Iowa county,
Wisconsin, for one Summer, spending the following Winter in Illinois at his
home. Mr. Morgan, after this, proceeded to Wright county, Missouri, where he
followed farming until the month of February, 1864, when he married and went
south to Texas; but that State not being suited to his taste, he returned to
Missouri, and a year later found him in Wisconsin, where, only remaining a short
time, in the Fall of 1838, he moved to Jackson county, Iowa, where he abode
until starting for the Pacific Coast. In March, 1849, Mr. Morgan and six
companions fitted out a wagon, and, with ox-teams, crossed the plains to
California, the journey occupying six months and one day. Arriving at Bidwell's
Bar, on the Feather river, he commenced mining operations, which he followed
until September, 1850, and on October 5th, sailed from San Francisco via Panama,
for his home in Iowa. There he remained until April, 1853, when he once more
undertook the overland journey to the Golden State, accompanied by his family,
and, coming direct to Contra Costa county, located in the Ygnacio valley, on the
land now occupied by ex-Sheriff John F. S. Smith, where he built unto himself a
small dwelling. In a hunting expedition over the slopes of Mount Diablo, in
1856, he discovered the tract of land now known as Morgan Territory, which he
claimed and fenced, and whither he moved in 1857, the tract comprising about ten
thousand acres, which, however, after survey, was cut down to two thousand
acres. Here he has resided ever since. Besides this possession, Mr. Morgan owns
four acres of land near Pacheco, ten acres in the vicinity of Concord, and three
hundred and twenty acres in the "Stone House" district. The Concord ten acres he
uses for raising carp. He has also two artesian wells, nine lots in the town of
Concord, slaughter-house, barns, and other improvements, while his land lying at
the foot of Mount Diablo, he uses with advantage as a stock-raising range. Mr.
Morgan has been twice married; firstly, in Wright county, Missouri, to Miss
Sarah Ellis, in 1834, a native of that State, who died in Morgan Territory,
Contra Costa county, March 17, 1869. By this union he had sixteen children, only
six of whom survive, viz: William, Elizabeth, Joseph, Benjamin, Isaac,
Josephine. Married, secondly, at Clayton, Contra Costa county, December 3, 1869,
Mrs. Louisa Coan, nee Riggs, a native of Kentucky, by whom there was one son,
named Jesse.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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