Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 579-580 [McCracken]

     JAMES EDWARD MORGAN, one of the oldest and best known residents of
Paducah, Kentucky, was born in Bedford county, Tennessee.  His parents
were Hugh and Mary (Marchbanks) Morgan, natives of North and South
Carolina, respectively.  They were married in Bedford county,
Tennessee, but left that locality in 1834 and settled six miles
south of Paducah, where they engaged in farming, the father's life
occupation, until the latter's death in 1846.  The family moved into
town in 1848, and there the mother died in 1862.  There were seven
children in the family, but only our subject and a sister are now
living.
     James Edward Morgan spent his early life upon a farm and
working at the carpenter's trade, but in 1854 he erected a livery
stable on Market street, now Second street, and has continued to
engage in the livery and feed stable business ever since, although
at times he has branched out in other directions.  For eight years
he was engaged in a saddlery business, and for about two years more
operated a grocery.  In 1901 he purchased a wagon yard and conducts
it in connection with his livery establishment, making a success of
both enterprises.
     Mr. Morgan has never married, during his earlier life devoting
himself to his widowed mother and now to his sister.  In politics he
is a Republican, and, during the exciting period antedating the
Civil war, he was an ardent abolitionist.  Mr. Morgan is known all
over the county, and much respected as well as esteemed, for he is a
man of sterling traits of character, always ready to assist those
less fortunate than himself, although the world knows but little of
his charities.

Morgan Marchbanks
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Bedford-TN NC SC

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