B. F. Morgan Biography


	This biography appears on pages 685-686 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				B. F. MORGAN. 

	B. F. Morgan is connected with various interests in Wagner and 
Charles Mix county, as he owns and operates six hundred and eighty 
acres of excellent land, is the present manager of the Farm & Home 
Telephone company and is quite prominent in politics, having 
represented his district in the state senate for two years. His birth 
occurred at Shullsburg, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, on the 12th of 
August, 1858, and he is a son of Daniel and Mary Morgan. The father, 
who followed agricultural pursuits, has now passed to his reward. 

	B. F. Morgan was reared under the parental roof and in the 
acquirement of his education attended the public schools. Upon putting 
aside his textbooks he turned his attention to farming and was so 
engaged for some time. For six years he was engaged in business in 
Shullsburg but at the end of that time he returned to the farm and 
continued to follow agricultural pursuits until 1905, when he removed 
to South Dakota, arriving here on the 4th of March. He purchased six 
hundred and eighty acres of land in Charles Mix county, which he 
operates personally, and his labors have been very efficient and his 
resources have steadily increased. He is not only one of the extensive 
landowners of the county but is also a director of the First State Bank 
and of the Farm & Home Telephone Company, of which he is now president. 
He is an excellent business man as well as a progressive agriculturist, 
and under his management the telephone company has enjoyed continued 
prosperity. 

	Mr. Morgan was married January 22, 1883, to Miss Maggie 
McCormish, a daughter of Ed McCormish, and they have become the parents 
of six sons and three daughters: Edward J., Daniel E., Bernie V., 
Emery, deceased, Chester, Orville, Gladys, Marguerite and Francis. 

	Mr. Morgan is a progressive democrat and in 1911 was elected 
state senator, serving ill that capacity until 1913. He was a working 
member of the upper house and his efforts were particularly effective 
in behalf of the bank guarantee act. Mr. Morgan presented a bill to 
appoint two delegates from South Dakota to go to Europe to study the 
rural credit system. Fraternally he is connected with the Elks and the 
Knights of Columbus, which fact indicates his membership in the Roman 
Catholic church. He is always ready to give of his time and means to 
movements whose aim is to advance the interests of his community and 
state, and his energy and initiative prove him to be a typical western 
man.