Berkeley County, West Virginia Biography of Morgan MORGAN, M. D. ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , March 2000 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 372 MORGAN MORGAN, M. D. Identified with the honorable profession of medicine and surgery in Berkeley County forty years, Doctor Morgan through his professional activities lias kept up the splendid record made by the Morgan family in its various branches over West Virginia. Doctor Morgan, who was born on a farm in Berkeley County, about three miles above Gerardstown, is in the sixth successive generation to bear the name Morgan Morgan. The original of the line was the historic character Col. Morgan Morgan, who was born in Wales, but was liberally educated in London, was an ordained minister of the Church of England, and in the time of William III or a little later settled in Delaware, where he married Catherine Garretson and somewhat later moved into the Valley of Virginia and at Winchester established a church of which he and his son Morgan Morgan, Jr., were pastors for many years. The cabin erected by Col. Morgan Morgan in 1726-27 in the vicinity of the present Bunker Hill in Berkeley County was the first home of a white man in that section of the state. Colonel Morgan had a grant of 1,000 acres of land in that vicinity, and it was on part of this grant that Doctor Mor- gan was born. The church Col. Morgan Morgan established with Doctor Briscoe and Yost Hite has long been known as Norbourne Parish. Col. Morgan Morgan and his wife had eight children, and from these are descended many of the Morgan families still prominent in West Virginia. His son Zackwell was founder of Morgantown, while another son, David, was the ancestor of the present Governor Morgan. The descendants through his son Morgan, a son in each generation named Morgan, have continued successively to occupy a portion of the old homestead in Berkeley County. Morgan Morgan, father of Doctor Morgan, inherited a por- tion of the homestead and was a farmer there throughout his life. He died in 1878. His wife was Mary Silver, who was born in Frederick County, Virginia, daughter of Zephania and Virginia (Henshaw) Silver, natives of Vir- ginia, the former of Scotch and the latter of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The mother of Doctor Morgan died in 1886. Her five children were named Morgan, Zephania, Josephine (who died at the age of twenty-three), William E. and Charles W. Dr. Morgan Morgan attended the common schools, the preparatory school at Newmarket and graduated in medicine from the University of Virginia in 1877. He took post- graduate preparation in Bellevue Hospital, where he gradu- ated in 1879. For three years following he practiced at Berkeley Springs and then returned to the old homestead and conducted a large and successful country practice in that vicinity until 1921, when he removed to Martinsburg, where he lives today. Doctor Morgan in 1906 married Mary J. Brannon, a native of Frederick County, Virginia. They have two chil- dren, Morgan and William Hilton. Doctor and Mrs. Mor- gan are members of the Episcopal Church.