Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH Hill,
1881, p. 323-324.
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.
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