MORGAN-Samuel - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Samuel Morgan, farmer, grain and stock shipper, Stone Bluff, came to Fountain county in 1840 with his parents and settled in Richland township His parents were William and Elizabeth Morgan; the former died in 1828, and the latter married a second time and emigrated in 1855 to Iowa, where she died in 1876, aged sixty-two years. Samuel M. and both his parents were natives of Kentucky. He was married in 1852 to Tabitha Renolds, native of Fountain county, and daughter of William and Elizabeth Renolds, both natives of Carolina, and settled in Fountain county in 1828, on Scott’s prairie. By this marriage there are four children: Sylvester, Lucetta, Elizabeth, and Abel. Mr. Morgan received no educational training beyond the common school. Ho began life for himself a poor boy. By his own industry and good management he has accumulated considerable property. He dealt in horses for some years, buying for the northern markets. In 1877 he erected, in partnership with George Dice, at Stone Bluff, a warehouse, and since that time has been in the grain trade, and operated till the present time a sawmill since 1873. Ho has a farm of 500 acres, well stocked with a good grade of cattle, sheep and hogs. He and his wife are strict members of the United Brethren church at Stone Bluff he one of the present trustees in the church. His mother was a member of the OldSchool Baptist. Mr. Morgan is recognized among one of the first business men of Van Buren township, and a generous giver for the support of christianity and other institutions in the interest of good society.