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         EVAN MORGAN, a farmer residing on section 4, Columbus City Township, is one of the earliest settlers of Louisa County, Iowa, he having come to his county in 1845, with his father, John Morgan, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. When nineteen years of age, in 1853, he left the parental roof, and, equipped with an ox-team, he started for California, accompanied by Samuel Buell. They went across the plains, and were five months in making the trip. Mr. Morgan settled first in Hangtown, and remained in California for eleven years, engaged in mining. On the . . .

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. . . 10th of September, 1861, he enlisted in the 2d California Cavalry, was assigned to Company D, and served for three years and fourteen days, being engaged in frontier duty and fighting with the Indians. After his discharge he started for home, sailing from the harbor of San Francisco, Oct. 3, 1864, going by way of the Isthmus of Panama and New York, and just one month from the day on which he started he reached Louisa County.

Remaining at home for two years, Mr. Morgan then purchased eighty acres of land on section 4, Columbus City Township, and, having secured a home to which to bring a bride, he was united in marriage, in 1867, with Mary Anwyl, who was born in Wales, and is a daughter of Evan and Elizabeth (Owen) Anwyl. They are now the parents of four children—Annie, Alfred, Edward and Elizabeth May. Mr. Morgan and his wife are members of the Congregational Church. He is a systematic and enterprising farmer, and now owns 200 acres of fine land under a good state of cultivation. Politically, he is a Republican.