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Show HIS ANCESTRY J ·ohn Hamilton Morgan was born in Gret·ulsbt.ll:'·g, Indiana on the 8th day of Augu$t,. 184Z ~ He came £l",om a long line of di$ti.n.gui:shed a.neestors; the first in Americ:a. being John Morgan, the son of Jar:nes Morgan., of Olam.organ Co;; • V\fa1es• who emigrated to Atne:rica with hht two br.c>;thers, James, and Miles , in the ~ummer of 1636. con~e"ning these tbree brothers: James settled in New Yo~k and became the eorm::non ancestor of a long line of eminent m•n and women who played important p•J'te ln the developrn(;lnt of that state and the en"" ill."e New England area. ~ifiles Morgan located in Plymouth11 Maesachu.setta, being one of its first settlers . He became the eonunon ~n~:estor of the J . Pterpont Morgan family whieh gained world-wide recognition in matters of finance. John Morgan, the cotnmon ancestor of John Hamilton Morgan. settled in Virginia, where his descerldants resided until 1798. when Garrard Morgan, Jr., the grandfather of our John Morgan emigrated to Carlisle, Nichola.s Co. • Kentucky. where on January 11 . 1833 he married Sarah Sanderson who had emigrated £ttottl North Carolina. . and from this union six children were b.orn; five boys and one girl. This family became one of Kentucky•s most noted; three of the boys married three sisters in the well-known Henry Bruce family of Flemingsbu.rg, Fleming County , Kentucky. John Sanderson Morgan who married Eleanor Bruce, served at Frankfort, in the ,Kentucky State House of Rep• resentatives as a member of and President ot the State Senate. He was also the promoter of and first President of the first railroad to operate in that state . Other members of the family held high office and were :recognized as among Kentucky's ;,a ;~.~.d Indiana's most prominent citizens ~ |
