MORGAN
MORGAN
in transferring the Cherokee Indians from
Georgia to the west in 1838. He was promoted
1st lieutenant, July 7, 1838 ; served at BuflFalo,
N.Y., during the Canada border disturbances,
1838-39, and resigned. from the U.S. army, May
81, 1839. He was principal assistant engineer of
the state of Pennsylvania, and chief of several
surveys, 1839-^16. He was reappointed to the army
as major of the 11th infantry, April 9, 1847, was
promoted lieutenant-colonel, and transferred to
the 13tli infantry, Sept. 13, 1847, and was mustered
out after his service in Mexico, July 31, 1848. He
was superintendent of the Western Military in-
stitute at Blue Licks, Ky., 1849-51 ; chief engineer
in the construction of railroad, Shelby, Ky., 1853-
54; and vice-president of Shelby college, Ky.,
1853-54. He was the joint superintendent with
Thornton Johnson of the Kentucky military in-
stitute at Harrodsburg, 1854-56 ; superintendent,
1856-61, and professor of mathematics and me-
chanics, Lehigh university, Bethlehem, Pa. ,1866-
69. He died in Bethlehem, Pa., April 16, 1869.
MORGAN, George, pioneer, was born in Phila- delpliia, Pa., in 1742; son of Evan and Johanna (Byles) Morgan; grandsonof David Morgan, and, on his mother's side, of a daughter of Randall Blackshaw, who came to America with William
Penn ; and a descend- ant from the Mor- gans of Llansawel and Tredegar, Wales. He was a merchant in Philadelphia, 17- 63-75 ; soldier in the American revolution, 1775-83 ; and an ex- plorer and agricul- turist, 1783-1810. In 1766 he made the journey from the mouth of the Kaskas- kia to the mouth of the Mississippi, the first American to perform the feat. The Indians having looted his storehouses of goods valued at £80,000, Sir William Johnson held a treaty with the savages at Fort Stanwix, Nov. 8, 1768, and they agreed to deed the territory of Indiana to G^eorge Morgan and his associates to recompense them for the loss, but after the Revolution Virginia claimed the territory by right of conquest, and congress decided in favor of the state. He was 1st lieu- tenant to Captain Cadwallader's company of volunteers in 1775, and on April 10, 1776, was made the first U.S. commissioner for Indian affairs, stationed at Fort Pitt. Before he left for the west the Delaware Indians assembled at his home, *' Prospect," near Princeton, N.J., and con-
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ferred on him the name of the most venerated
chief, *' Taimenend," and when Colonel Morgan
returned from Fort Pitt he recounted such
wonderful legends of that chieftain that " Tam-
many " societies w^ere formed in New York and
New Jersey. He founded the first English colony
in the province of Louisiana at New Madrid,
Mo., built the first house with a shingle roof
at Pittsburg, Pa., and was commissioned
colonel in the Continental army, Jan. 8, 1777.
He was the second of General Conway in his
duel with General Cadwalader in July, 1778,
although a firm friend of Washington, and he
served General Conway only at the earnest
request of his fellow oflEicer, General Cadwalader.
In 1779 congress authorized him to select three
Indian youths to be educated at the College of
New Jersey, and he took them from the Delaware
tribe,and they resided at * ' Prospect. " He removed
to '* Morganza," eighteen miles from Pittsburg,
when in 1802 he planted the first vineyard west of
the Alleghany mountains, and took with him the
first coach and piano seen there. In 1806 Aaron
Burr visited him at ** Morganza," and disclosed to
him his scheme for the partition of Louisiana.
Colonel Morgan and his sons were so indignant
that they advised with Gen. Presley Neville
and the judges of the U.S. and district courts,
and Colonel Morgan addressed a communication
to President Jefferson informing him of Burr's
intentions. On March 26, 1807, Jefferson wrote
to Colonel Morgan in these words : " Yours was
the first intimation I had of the plot, for which it
is but justice to say you have deserved well of
your country." The Philadelphia Society for Pro-
moting Agriculture presented him with a gold
medal in 1786, and Thomas Pickering in forward-
ing it, said, "This is the first premium ever given
to American agriculture." He was elected a
member of the American Philosophical society in
1786. He married Mary, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Chevalier) Baynton, and they had
three sons, John, George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson and one daughter, Ann, who
married Gen. Presley Neville and their son Mor-
gan Neville (1786-1839) was editor of the Pittsburg
Gazette and author of Mike Tink, the Last of the
Boatmen (1829). Colonel Morgan is the author
of numerous articles on the science of agriculture
He died at Morganza, Ponn., March 10, 1810.
MORGAN, George Washbourne, organist, was born in Gloucester, England, April 9, 1822 ; son of Thomas and Anne Morgan. He attended school in Gloucester, studied the organ, played in the church of St. Nicholas at the age of eight, and was assistant organist of the cathedral in 1834, and director of its boy choir in 1836. He removed to London in 1851, and in competition with Sir Henry Smart won the appointment of
