William Henry Morgan Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1261-1262 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	WILLIAM HENRY MORGAN, attorney-at-law and one of the leading 
members of the South Dakota bar, was born in South Elgin, Illinois, on 
June 23, 1851. His father is Manly S. Morgan, one of the leading 
pioneers of Illinois, who in early life was a mechanic, but for many 
years has been an extensive horticulturist and grower of products for 
early market, owning large forcing plants. William Henry spent the years 
of his childhood and youth in his native town, and after receiving his 
elementary education entered Wheaton College, from which institution he 
was graduated in 1878. Later be began the study of law and subsequently 
became a student of the Union Law College, Chicago, where he was 
graduated and in 1887 was admitted to the bar. Meantime, 1882, Mr. 
Morgan came to South Dakota, and took up a homestead near Westport, 
Brown county, after which he returned to Illinois and completed his 
legal education as noted above. Returning to Dakota in 1889, he opened 
an office in Aberdeen, where he has since devoted his attention almost 
exclusively to a general practice, and meeting with success. Mr. Morgan 
served one term as probate judge, aside from which he has held no 
official position. He has taken an active interest in public affairs 
since coming west, and was an influential leader in the reform movement, 
which sent Hon. J. H. Kyle to the legislature, and later to the United 
States senate. He still manifests a lively regard for whatever concerns 
the welfare of his city, county and state, and as a public-spirited 
citizen, gives an earnest support to any and all measures making for 
these and other laudable ends. 

	Mr. Morgan was married at Wheaton, Illinois, June 23, 1880, to 
Miss Minnie Weamer, stepdaughter of Rev. Dr. James B. Walker, a 
distinguished divine of that state and the author of several popular and 
scholarly works, one of which, "The Philosophy of the Plan of 
Salvation," has been translated into several of the leading languages of 
the world, as well as many dialects. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have no 
children of their own, but some years ago they opened their home to a 
lad by the name of Charles Walker, whom they reared from boyhood to 
manhood. 

	Religiously Mr. Morgan is a Congregationalist, as is also his 
wife, both being members of the church in Aberdeen. Fraternally he is 
identified with the Modern Brotherhood of America and politically, he is 
a Democrat.