Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Morgan, Erwin C 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

ERWIN C. MORGAN, a farmer and stockraiser of Wesley Township, residing on 
section 4, has spent his entire life on his present farm, and was born here 
September 13, 1854. His father, Benjamin F. Morgan, was a native of Herkimer 
County, N. Y., born April 2, 1811, and continued to reside in that county 
until his removal to Illinois. The year 1840 found him in Will County, where 
he settled on section 4, Wesley Township. The following year he brought his 
family west and established his permanent home here. The land on which he 
settled was raw and wild, with scarcely a furrow turned in its soil. He 
cleared the eighty acres, placed it under cultivation, and devoted it to 
general farm pursuits and to stockraising. Later he bought another eighty-acre 
tract. He was always interested when improvements in the township were 
proposed. He filled a number of local offices, to which he was elected on the 
Republican ticket. While he never attained wealth, yet at the time of his 
death, in 1882, he left a valuable farm and other property, which represented 
the results of his labors during an active portion of his seventy-one years. 
He married Elizabeth Sternberg, who was born in New York and died in Will 
County in 1861. Of their four children, Erie F., is living in Chicago; Philip 
C. is deceased; Erwin C. was third in order of birth; and Sidney S. was the 
youngest. After the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan our subject's father was a 
second time married, choosing as his wife Betsey E. Gould, a native of this 
county. By that marriage a daughter was born, May E., now the wife of Irving 
F. Lowell, of Rochester, N. Y. When a boy our subject attended public school. 
Like most boys, he was more fond of play than of study, and the best education 
he has gained has come from contact with the world in the school of 
experience, as he always keeps well posted on topics of importance. His life 
has been quietly and busily passed on the old homestead. He has charge of two 
farms and makes a specialty of raising grain and stock. On his place he has 
made a number of good improvements, which prove him to be a man of thrift and 
energy. In politics a Republican, he has been active in local party matters. 
From 1879 to 1881 he was town clerk. In 1883-84 he served as town collector, 
and again in 1892 and 1898 as town clerk. At this writing he is clerk of the 
school board. His various positions he has filled with fidelity, showing that 
he is a good citizen, alive to the needs of the township. In 1880 he was 
united in marriage with Fannie M., daughter of Henry H. Jones, of this 
township. They have an only child, Bessie V.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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