Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....Gavitt, Morgan 1871 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  MORGAN GAVITT is a well-known and successful educator of Sullivan county, now
  holding the responsible position of principal of the Laporte high school and
  also as deputy county treasurer. He is one of the most reliable progressive and
  popular young men of the community, and the success that he has achieved in life
  is due entirely to his own efforts.
  
      Professor Gavitt traces his ancestry back to William Gavitt, a native of
  Massachusetts, who located in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, about the
  beginning of the nineteenth century. His son, Peter Gavitt, the grandfather of
  our subject, was born in Susquehanna county, July 10, 1827, and is now a
  well-known farmer of Laporte township, Sullivan county. In his family were the
  following children: Temperance, now the widow of William Stone, of Susquehanna
  county; Nancy, wife of Daniel Reynolds, of the same county; Prentice, who was
  killed at the battle of Chancellorsville; Peter, a farmer of Laporte township,
  Sullivan county; Mary, widow of Francis Rosencrants, of Susquehanna county;
  John, a retired tanner of the same county; and Thankful, wife of Albert Conklin,
  of Laporte.
  
      Peter Gavitt, Jr., our subject's father, was born in Susquehanna county,
  received a common-school education and became a tiller of the soil in his native
  county. In the spring of 1869 he came to Sullivan county and purchased his
  present farm four miles south of Laporte. He married Miss Eliza, daughter of
  John Rosencrants, of Susquehanna county, and to them have been born six
  children: Polly, wife of E. J. Messenger, of Susquehanna county; Louisa, wife of
  Troutman Simmons, of the state of Washington; Ruby, wife of William Low, of
  Laporte township, Sullivan county; Jennie, wife of J. W. Buck, of Sonestown; Lee
  R., a farmer on the old homestead; and Morgan, our subject.
  
      A native of Sullivan county, Morgan Gavitt was born February 28, 1871, in
  Laporte township, where he attended the public schools, acquiring a good
  practical education. At the age of sixteen years he commenced teaching school,
  and has since successfully followed that profession, while for five years he
  also worked in the lumber woods during his vacations. In 1892 he was elected
  county auditor of Sullivan county, which office he most creditably filled for
  one term. In 1894 he was chosen principal of the high school of Laporte, where
  he still remains, and he is acknowledged to be one of the most thorough and
  capable instructors in the county. Although still a young man his popularity is
  established on a firm basis, that of his own well-tested merit. Politically he
  is an active member of the Democratic party, and socially belongs to Sonestown
  Lodge, No. 321, I. O. O. F.
  
      On the 30th of May, 1892, Mr. Gavitt was united in marriage with Miss Alda
  Buck, daughter of Jacob Buck, of Glen Marr, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and
  to them have been born three children - Lou M., Blake and Fredda.
  
  
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              Extracted from: 
                  
                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                   Compendium of Biography
                  
             The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
   
  
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