BIO: Raleigh S. Morgan, Clinton Co.,KY

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Nancy T. Green <ntgreen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:34:32 -0700

From: Portrait and Biographical Record, Buchanan and Clinton Counties, Missouri
containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, together 
with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States. 
Chicago Chapman Bros. 1883

page 611
RALEIGH S. MORGAN, an extensive landholder, and for many years widely known as one of 
the most prosperous pioneer agriculturists of Clinton Conty, is now a highly esteemed 
and honored resident of the city of Plattsburgh, where he enjoys the congenial 
companionship of old-time friends and acquaintances.  Our subject was born near 
Shepherdstown, on the Potomac, Jefferson County, W. Va., December 23, 1824.  His 
parents, Raleigh and Rebecca (Slyer) Morgan, were both native Virginians, their Welsh 
ancestors having been among the early settlers of the Old Dominion.  Mr. Morgan was 
reared upon the old Virginia homestead, and after having learned the trade of a 
house-painter, located at twenty-one years of age, near Winchester, Clark County, Ky. 
 With ambitious energy he followed his trade and engaged in farming until 1857, when 
he came to Missouri, bringing with him his family, two slaves and $7,000 in money.

Purchasing a fine farm of three hundred and sixty acres, located seven miles from 
Plattsburgh, our subject devoted himself to the duties of mixed farming and was among 
the largest growers and feeders of live-stock in the county.  His original Missouri 
homestead has grown to four hundred and forth acres, and he now owns three farms, all 
under a high state of cultivation, and containing a total of over one thousand acres 
of land.  His real estate is all under his immediate supervision and he personally 
manages the home farm, which is one of the finest and most profitable in this section 
of the country.  In common with many others, he suffered heavy financial losses during 
the war, but took no active part in the conflict. 

At twenty-five years of age Mr. Morgan was united in marriage in Clark County, Ky., 
with Miss Amanda Ann Trimble, a native of that State and county.  The marriage was 
blessed by three children, two daughters and one son.  Raleigh Morgan, the eldest, is 
a prominent citizen of Plattsburgh.  Mary Margaret, now the widow of Albert Shaver, 
resides with her father.  Her son, Raleigh A., twenty-one years of age, is his
grandfather's assistant and is a young man of unusual promise and ability.  Sally Ann, 
the second daughter, is the wife of David L. Stoutimore, whose pleasant home is just 
across the street from the elegant and commodious residence of our subject, finely 
located upon South Spring Street.  Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Morgan
joined the Old-school Presbyterian Church, and have ever been among the active workers 
of that religious organization.  They and the various members of their family occupy a 
high social position and are leaders in benevolent enterprises, having materially 
assisted in the advancement of the best interests of their home neighborhood and 
county. 

Although never an office-seeker, Mr. Morgan is a stanch Democrat, and deeply 
interested in local and national issues.  A man of intelligence and ability, upright 
in character and earnest in purpose, for thirty-five years he has been closely 
identified with the progressive movements of the State, and is numbered among the 
public-spirited citizens whose steadfast integrity and energetic industry have
deservedly won for them both affluence and influential position. 

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