Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Morgan, William T. July 5, 1876 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.55  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        WILLIAM T. MORGAN started life under the handicap of comparative
poverty. He learned the business of cigar making. About thirty years ago he
came to Florida, and the chief fruit of his business enterprise is the Morgan
Cigar Company at West Tampa, of which he is manager and vice president. This is
one of the most prosperous cigar factories in the Tampa District.
	He was born in Banks County, Georgia, July 5, 1876, son of J. C. and
ANNIE (SLAYTON) MORGAN, both natives of Georgia. He was only a year and a half
old when his mother died, and as a child he had to look out for himself. He was
a mere boy when he went on the payroll of a cigar factory at Atlanta. His first
work was sweeping the floors. Later he was made a shipper, and in course of
time qualified as a cigar maker. In 1892 he came to Florida and worked at his
trade for several years.
	Mr. Morgan in 1900 moved to the far Northwest and established a cigar 
factory at Seattle, Washington. In 1905 he moved his factory to West Tampa, at 
which time his force of employees numbered about twenty-five. In 1906 he 
incorporated the Morgan Cigar Company under the laws of the State of Washington 
with a capital of $100,000, about $50,000 being paid up, while the rest was 
taken up within two years. Under Mr. Morgan as general manager and vice 
president this industry has steadily grown, and it now has a force of employees 
of about three hundred. They have both a bonded and unbonded factory on the 
same lot, in a three-story and basement building 50 by 175 feet. The Morgan 
Cigar Company makes a specialty of clear Havana cigars in bond. Its finest 
brand is the Juan De Fuca, which sells retail and from ten cents to three for a 
dollar. The other cigars manufactured sell from five cents to fifteen cents a 
piece and are mild Havana. This company’s output is between ten to twelve
million cigars per year, and due to their excellent quality they have a steady
demand and distribution all over the United States. The capital and surplus of
the Morgan Cigar Company is now $400,000.
	Mr. Morgan has proved himself in every way one of the progressive and 
up-to-date citizens of Tampa. He married in 1901 at Seattle, Miss GENEVIEVE
NETTEFIELD, a native of Wisconsin. Their two daughters and two sons are SYLVIA,
MARYBELL, THOMAS, Jr., and JACK. The family are Catholics in religion.


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