JAMES S. MORGAN
James S. Morgan resides upon section 1, Franklin township, where he owns two hundred and forty-five acres. He entered the eighty on which he resides, and an eighty adjoining on section 8, in 1855, but did not locate here until 1864. He was born in Richland county, Ohio, July 24, 1825. His early years were spent in his native State, and he was there married to Rebecca Steele, a native of the same county, born in 1832. He came to Iowa in 1856, and located in Jasper county, where he lived until he came to Cass county in 1864. His parents, Jacob and Mary Morgan, settled in Belmont county, Ohio, at an early day. Jacob Morgan died in Ohio. His wife died in Jasper county. Mrs. Morgan's parents, James and Elizabeth Steele, were brought up in Pennsylvania, and afterward settled in Richland county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have three children--Harry S., now in California; Alice, wife of Edward Berg, and George Franklin, at home with his parents.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 795.
