Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Morgan, Franklin Dwight March 20, 1842 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 November 1, 2008, 12:30 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Morgan, Franklin Dwight, Winfield, was born in Winfield March 20, 1842, third son of Newton Americus Morgan, who was the second son of Ebenezer, who settled first on the Hugh Davis place. Newton Americus Morgan, the second son, married Harriet, oldest daughter of Dennis Philleo. They had seven children, Laura A., who died at eight years of age; Eliza Jane, Theressa, Milton Taylor.The family moved to what is known as the Deacon Eaton farm, where two sons were born, Henry Curtis and Franklin Dwight. He then bought of Squire Green what was called the old Joe Walker farm, and moved to that house, where another son, Newton Philleo, was born. Newton Americus Morgan died March 2, 1861, aged fifty-five years. Franklin Dwight Morgan married Rosa R. Harrison, of this town, daughter of Stephen Harrison, a native of England, August 29, 1864. In September, 1867, they bought and settled on a farm in Pulaski, town of Richland, Oswego county. They have had one son, Frankie A. S., born November 21, 1867, who died August 18, 1875, in Pulaski, where he was born. The parents since the spring of 1880 have rented their Pulaski farm, and have lived at and near Winfield. Mr. F. D. Morgan was superintendent of the Unadilla Valley Stock Farm from April, 1890, to March, 1892, when he gave up farming, and bought and settled in the Ira Walker house in West Winfield. He is now engaged in the livery business in West Winfield near the Cottage Hotel. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/morgan587gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb