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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 414-415]

   EDWARD F. MORGAN has been prominently identified with the interests
   of Cherokee County since 1869.  He was born in Plymouth, Windsor
   County, Vermont, April 1, 1842. His parents, ISAIAH and HARRIET
   (POTTER) MORGAN, were of English-Irish, and English ancestry. His
   Grandfather MORGAN was a soldier in the Revolution. His grand-
   mother's people were the PARKERS, a family well and favorably known
   for generations in New England, and active participants in the
   immortal struggle for independence.  EDWARD F. lived in Vermont
   until nearly twenty years of age, assisting in the cultivation of
   the old home farm.  On October 23, 1862, the spirit of freedom
   strong within him, he enlisted in Company C, Sixteenth Vermont
   Volunteers, and joined the noble army then struggling to preserve
   the Union his ancestors had helped to establish. He was honorably
   discharged October 23, 1863, but again impelled by the impulses of
   patriotism, he enlisted in the Third Battery of Light Artillery,
   Vermont Volunteers, September 2, 1864,and served until peace again
   came to our distracted land.  His health was impaired by the exposure
   and hardships which he endured in the service.  He saw much hard
   fighting; was in the battle of Gettsyburg, and saw General HANCOCK
   near the Peach Orchard shortly after that hero was wounded. He was
   in the battles and skirmishes at Hagerstown, Rappphannock, Manassas,
   before Petersburg, near the Rapidan, Culpepper Court-house, Bristow's
   Station and Warentown Junction.  At Gettsburg he saw the Louisiana
   Tigers make their famous but futile charge under General PICKETT,
   and after that battle he was in the march from Gettysburg to Hagers-
   town, in the Second Army Corps. At different times during his ser-
   vice he was under Generals HOOKER, MEADE and GRANT.  After the war
   Mr. MORGAN went to Eau Claire, Wisconison, where he was an engineer
   in one of the mills.  He resided there until 1869, when he came to
   Cherokee County and took a homestead of eighty acres in Pitcher
   Township; he improved this land and made it his home until 1881,
   when he settled in Willow Township.  He now owns a good farm of
   eighty acres upon which he has built a comfortable dwelling, and
   made many other improvements.  The place is well watered, and offers
   excellent advantages for stock-raising. Mr. MORGAN is a member of
   General Custer Post, No. 25, G.A.R., and was formerly a member of
   the Patrons of Husbandry.  Since his residence in Cherokee County
   he has been called upon to fill various local offices of trust and
   responsibility, and has ever merited the confidence reposed in him.
   For five years he was justice of the peace of Willow Township, and
   for a time was supervisor of District No. 1.  Politically he is a
   Republican of the old school.  Mr. MORGAN was united in marriage
   May 29, 1869, to Miss ALICE COLLINS, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
   She is a daughter of HENRY and LUCINDA (WALKER) COLLINS, natives of
   Kentucky and Missouri respectively.  Mrs. MORGAN comes of a family
   of pioneers of Wisconsin and Iowa.  Her uncle, HENRY WALKER, was
   the first white child born in Clayton County, Iowa, her grandfather,
   T. B. WALKER, being one of the early settlers of that county; at one
   time he kept the fort at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.  Mr. MORGAN
   is a man well informed on the early history of Cherokee County, and
   has many vivid recollections of the trials and hardships of those
   times.  There was a time when he knew every man in the county.

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