ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: MORGAN, Sherwood D. (published 1928)

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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 94-95

        SHERWOOD D. MORGAN, of Huntington, took up when a young man the
business which he has followed ever since, lumbering, both as a
manufacturer and wholesaler. His experience makes him one of the oldest men
in point of continuous service and experience in that line in the State of
West Virginia.
        Mr. Morgan was born on a farm in Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 9,
1865, son of Charles E. and Nellie (Freer) Morgan, and grandson of Hiram
Morgan, a native of Connecticut, who moved to Ohio in an early day, and was
both a farmer and doctor, and of Josiah D. Freer, who came from New York
and cleared up a farm in Northern Ohio. Charles E. Morgan was born in
Ashtabula County, Ohio, and died in 1914, at the age of seventy-eight,
having devoted his life to agriculture. His wife was born in New York State
and died in 1912, at the age of seventy-six. They were members of the
Methodist Church, and the father was a Democrat and held several township
offices.
        Sherwood D. Morgan, third in a family of six children, three of
whom are living, grew up on his father's farm in Northeastern Ohio,
attended country schools and for a time taught school. At the age of
twenty-four he left the home farm to go into business for himself, and in
1899 located at Sand Stone Station, West Virginia, becoming a
representative there for the Crosby & Beckley Lumber Company of New Haven,
Connecticut. After seven years he formed a partnership with B.E. Kile, the
manufacturers of lumber with headquarters at Buckhannon, West Virginia.
This company did a widely extended business for fourteen years, Mr. Morgan
finally selling his interests. Since 1913 he has been conducting a
wholesale lumber business, with headquarters at Huntington.
        He married, in 1891, Miss Nellie F. Kile, who was born in Ohio and
educated in that state. Of their four children three are living: Robert K.,
sales manager for the Federal Motor Truck Company of Detroit; Walter E.,
manager and owner of the Morgan Lumber Sales Company, Columbus, Ohio; and
Persis Charlene, a graduate of Marshall College in 1927, and prominent in
school societies, now a teacher in the high school at New Martinsville,
West Virginia. Mrs. Morgan has always been prominent in Methodist Church
activities and gives much of her time to church, social and charitable
movements. Mr. Morgan is a Democrat in politics.


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