Jacob C. Morgan (1917)

MORGAN, EASTLAND, GREEN, PIERCE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/27/2014 at 14:30:40

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday September 26, 1917
Page 4, Column 2

DEATH OF J. C. MORGAN

Was Pioneer Printer, Established Paper Here in 1873

Jacob Morgan, who was employed in the Madisonian office in the early seventies, and later established the Winterset News, died last week in a Kansas City hospital. The following account of his death and life sketch is taken from the Kearney, Nebr., Democrat, edited by Forest L. Whedon.

Jacob C. Morgan died in a Kansas City hospital last Wednesday at the age of seventy six years. For the past twenty four years Mr. Morgan was connected with the government printing office at Washington, D. C., and was recently placed on the retired list. He left Washington and went to Kansas City where he was taken sick and went to a hospital where his final summons came.

The writer knew Jacob C. Morgan very well. In 1872 Mr. Morgan was foreman in the Madisonian office at Winterset, Iowa, and the writer was an apprentice in that office under him. The year following, he secured control of a small printing plant there and established the Winterset News, and we went with him to that office and remained until he sold the plant in 1875 and removed to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and purchased the Council Bluffs Daily Globe. It was while publishing that paper that he was elected to the state legislature from Pottawattamie county. Subsequently, he sold the Globe and removed to Kearney and purchased the Buffalo County Courier, which he published for several years and in 1885 he was appointed postmaster at Kearney. In January, 1894, he started The Kearney Democrat, and with its second issue we came to Kearney and took charge of the paper and shortly afterward Mr. Morgan went to Washington and through Congressman Randall of Pennsylvania, secured a position in the government printing office and remained there in different capacities until a few months ago. In many respects Mr. Morgan was a bright man. He was an intimate friend of such men as Congressman Randall and “Sunset”Cox, two of the shining lights in congress during the seventies and early eighties .

He leaves three daughters: Mrs. May Eastland of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Mrs. Grace Green and Mrs. Itha Pierce of this city, the two latter departing immediately for Kansas City when word reached them of their father's death.

The body was brought to Kearney and the funeral services were held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grace Green, Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, under the auspices of the Masonic order. Mr. Morgan was a veteran of the Civil War.

Gravestone Photo
 

Madison Obituaries maintained by Linda Griffith Smith.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen