Morgan - Samuel B. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Source: H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Chicago:   HH Hill, 1881)

   

S.B. Morgan, Crawfordsville, was born in Huntington county, New Jersey,   and at the age of four years he removed with his parents to   Butler County, Ohio, where they a few years after died, leaving   the doctor, then a stripling of a youth, to depend upon his own   judgment and resources. At the age of seventeen years he went to   Piqua, Miami county, Ohio, and began teaching school and the   study of medicine. He remained about four years and then removed   to Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he began in the drug trade with a   small stock Of goods, and still prosecuted his study of medicine.   He then went to Cincinnati and entered the Medical College of   Ohio, graduating after proper study. Shortly after he went to   Port Jefferson, Ohio, and spent one year in the practice of his   profession. His next remove was to Crawfordsville, in 1841, where   he at once began practice. In 1871 he met with an accident that   crippled him badly for a number of years. It occurred by his   being thrown from his buggy and hurting one of his thighs. He   has, however, so far recovered as to continue his practice. He is   among the oldest and best known physicians of the county, and has   been reasonably successful in financial matters as well as in the   practice of medicine. In 1833 the doctor married Miss Margaret   Monson. The fruits of their union have been six children, three   sons and three daughters, though but one of the former and two of   the latter are now living. The eldest son, William H., in 1853   entered the United States Naval Academy of Annapolis, from which   he graduated, and returned to his home. In 1861, at the breaking   out of the war, he entered the army, and was commissioned by Gov.   0. P. Morton Lieut. Col. of the 25th Ind. Vols. In a short time   he was commissioned colonel of the regiment, and remained with it   until 1865. During the war he was appointed to go to Washington   city and assist in organizing the Hancock Corps. He was one of   the committee to examine and select officers for the corps, of   which he was one of the drill-masters. He was appointed colonel   of one of the regiments of the corps, and sent to Springfield,   Ill., where the regiment was disbanded some time after the close   of the war. This was the end of his military career. He then went   to Kansas City, Missouri. and engaged in the wholesale drug   trade, which he in turn gave up and engaged extensively in the   growing of sheep in Kansas, where he died in the spring of 1878.   D. N. Morgan, the second son and only one now living, graduated   from the Wabash College in 1858. William H. had also attended the   same college, and in 1861 he entered the army as a sutler. He   returned safely, and is now engaged in the drug trade at Lodi,   Illinois. John, the youngest of the sons, was a student in Wabash   College at the time of the breaking out of the war, in 1861. He   left college, and also entered the army as a sutler. At the close   of the war he went to Arkansas, but not being accustomed to the   climate he was shortly stricken with fever, which soon caused his   death. Sarah E., the eldest of the daughters, was married in 1864   to Joseph Gilbert, of Terre Haute, Indiana. Miss Martha J., the   youngest sister, is still at home with her parents.

   

Source: 1878 Montgomery County, Indiana Atlas p 54

   

MORGAN, SB, MD; PO Crawfordsville, Physician and Surgeon;   native of New Jersey. Settled in this co.unty, 1841.

Source: Record# 11420 in database 19th Indiana Century Physicians

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