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         DAVID MORGAN, proprietor of a meat-market at Columbus City, Iowa, was born in Madison Township, Butler Co., Ohio, on the 26th of May, 1816, and is a son of Thomas and Nancy (Bollom) Morgan. In August, 1832, when sixteen years of age, he left his native State, going to Indiana, where he remained until 1834. He then removed to Mercer County, Ill., where he made his home until the following spring, at which time he came to Louisa County, Iowa. It was then almost entirely unsettled except by the Indians, and on the site of many of its towns and villages there was not a single house. After two years had passed he returned to Mercer County, Ill.

On the 15th of October, 1840, Mr. Morgan was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Malay, a daughter of Thomas Malay, and a native of Greene County, Ohio. They began their domestic life in Mercer County, where they resided for one year, then removed to Warren County, Ill., and subsequently became residents of Henderson County. They there remained until the 8th of April, 1862, when they came to Louisa County, Iowa, and settled in Columbus City. Mr. Morgan has here engaged in various kinds of business, after which he was proprietor of a dry-goods store, but for the past nine years has been a butcher. He receives, as he well deserves, a liberal share of the patronage of that city. Politically, he is a Democrat. To Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have been born seven children, who are yet living.