Morgan, Russell (1821-1906)

MORGAN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/9/2009 at 16:20:23

Russell Morgan
1821 - Dec 9, 1906

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.41, Council Bluffs)
R. Morgan, undertaker, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1874 and opened an undertaking establishment, employing two or three men steadily. He was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1821, and began business in Jamestown in 1842. In 1844, he moved to Sinclairville, N. Y., and engaged in the manufacture of furniture, and then moved to Corry, Penn., in 1855, where he remained till he came to Council Bluffs. He was married in Jamestown, N. Y., in 1842, and has a family of twelve children. His wife dying in 1861, he again married in 1879. Mr. Morgan united with the Baptist Church at Buffalo at the early age of fifteen. He was the founder of the First Baptist Church in Corry, Penn., maintaining the minister for the first six months himself, and was Trustee and Deacon while he remained in that city. Is also Trustee and Deacon of the First Baptist Church of Council Bluffs at the present time.