Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Morgan, Samuel 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Samuel Morgan, farmer, grain and stock shipper, Stone Bluff, came to Fountain
county in 1840 with his parents and settled in Richland township. His parents
were William and Elizabeth Morgan; the former died in 1828, and the latter
married a second time and emigrated in 1855 to Iowa, where she died in 1876,
aged sixty-two years. Samuel M. and both his parents were natives of Kentucky.
He was married in 1852 to Tabitha Renolds, native of Fountain county, and
daughter of William and Elizabeth Renolds, both natives of Carolina, and settled
in Fountain county in 1828, on Scott's prairie. By this marriage there are four
children: Sylvester, Lucetta, Elizabeth, and Abel. Mr. Morgan received no
educational training beyond the common school. He began life for himself a poor
boy. By his own industry and good management he has accumulated considerable
property. He dealt in horses for some years, buying for the northern markets. In
1877 he erected, in partnership with George Dice, at Stone Bluff, a warehouse,
and since that time has been in the grain trade, and operated till the present
time a sawmill since 1873. He has a farm of 500 acres, well stocked with a good
grade of cattle, sheep and hogs. He and his wife are strict members of the
United Brethren church at Stone Bluff, he one of the present trustees in the
church. His mother was a member of the Old School Baptist. Mr. Morgan is
recognized among one of the first business men of Van Buren township, and a
generous giver for the support of Christianity and other institutions in the
interest of good society.

Additional Comments:

Van Buren Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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