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Show On J·une 7, 1888• he married Mary Llnton, who was born From this marriage the following childre·n were born: Llnton Morgan Harold Jtlorga~ ·Matthias Cowley Morgan On the 20th day of Ootober; 18tl61 he left Salt Lake City for Illinois and Indiana to do missionary work for the said. Church. For one year he wes actively engaged in this work when ~der direction from President Bri.gham Y·oung ·he travelled . south to Rome, Georgia and in that -State and ad,joining territories, made a ·remarkeble record in converting and baptizing people into the Church. On the 20th day of lovember, 1877 he ~ss smbled e:i.ghty of the newly converted .Mormon people and started wAstward as immirrants i nto Colorado, They arrived ~t . Pueblo , Colorado, 8 few days l8te~ &nd in· t'he spring of 1878 this grotip became the· nueleous forth~ fitst settlers in the San ·Luis Vslley and in the establishment of the settlements of Manas·sa, S&nford, Ephraim, Morgan and other minor settlements. On the 2nd day of August; 1878, John Morgan' was sustained as PresidBnt of the Southern ·Statest Mission, new1y orgeni.zed, and for ten years he continued in this .capacity lfhen he :was succeeded by 'rilliam Spry, later Governor. of -the St~te of U~h. . ·on May 31, 1S83 1 he was sus.teined as counselor to George Q. Cannon in the General Superintendency of Sunday S:'tH))Ol Union Board of the IJ>S Church., On August 6, 188.3, he was elected County Superintendent of Schools of Salt Lake County and on the '. S8Jtl~ ticket waR elected to the Legislature of the Terri tory of Utah. On Deoemher, 12;· 188,3, he organized the first Salt Lake Oounty Teacher's _ Association. In the Le1isla-tive -Assembly held in the winter of 1884, he was responsible for the introduction and passage of the first law establishing the Public School System in Utah. . On October 5; 1884, . he was . sustain~ .. ftL one of the Firft Seven President-s of Seventy of the Church, thereby becoming a '11e-neral ~thori t~ of the Church, which appointment he held until his death. On October 1; 1889,. he reeol!ll'11ended tha establishment end was placed in charge :· by the General Authoriti es of the Church, of the BureflU of Information which since said time has beeome one of the larger missions of the Chu:-ch. When in 1890 the people of Utah divided on party lines, John Morgan became one of t be outstanding leaders of t he Republican party and .until hls death was recognized as perhaps the most influential power in that organization. 1·~. ' tt was he whom the Terri toriel and Church Leaders sent to V:'ashington to arrange ' t•crr the int:ro:1uctiC'n of bills in the Congress cf the , U:ni ted States for the granting· of Statehood to t)'tah. It was he who w s sent by the c·hurch Leaders to intercede with President William H. Earrison and his Cabinet Members for s more lenient and faire.r treatment of the Mormon problem -et a tirae when all, Church property had been escheated to the Government and all said property was under the contro1 of a Federal Receiver. It was John Morgan, who, with t.he assistance of B. H. Roberts 1 went t<? New York and other large cen ;., t;:~ rc and in teTcecied with the |
