Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Morgan, M. W. 1833 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

M. W. MORGAN, a farmer of Yolo County, was born January 6, 1833, in Trumbull
County, Ohio, a son of Ezra and Harriet (Jordan) Morgan, natives of New York
State. In 1851 the senior Morgan came to California and in 1853 sent for his two
sons M. W. and Emery B., who taught the first school in the Cacheville district.
The father returned to Ohio in the spring of 1856. Previously, M. W., at the age
of sixteen years began sailing on the lakes. At the age of twenty-one years, in
1853, he came to California, as mentioned, landing in San Francisco, and in a
short time went to Yolo County, and settled on his father's farm, until his
father returned to Ohio. Then he went to selling goods in the mountains, and
followed that business successfully until 1867, when he returned to Yolo County
and purchased the place where he now lives. During the same year he went back to
Ohio and Iowa; and while East he was married, in Davenport, Iowa, August 18,
1869, to Miss Mary A. Neal, a native of Ohio. He came with his wife to
California and settled upon his ranch; but in 1877 his wife died, leaving an
only daughter, Clara L., born September 5, 1870. Mr. Morgan has toiled
faithfully and honestly for many years in the Golden State, and well deserves
the enjoyments of the beautiful home which he has made near the foothills of the
Coast mountains. His ranch contains 200 acres.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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