Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Owen Co.

MARCUS E. MORGAN was born in Owen County, Ky., April 18, 1861, and is a
son of B. G. Morgan and Sarah (Copher) Morgan, of Gratz, Ky.  B. G. Morgan
was born in Owen COunty, April 5, 1832, and has made farming his chief
occupation.  John Morgan, the grandfather of Marcus E., was born in
Virginia, immigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Owen County, on Big Twin
Creek.  He was one of the oldest settlers, and was a soldier in the war
of 1812, and participated in all the bloody battles of that war, under the
command of Gen. Richard M. Johnson.  William Morgan, the great-grandfather
of Marcus E., was born in Wales, came to American, and settled in South
Carolina, but later removed to Kentucky, and settled in what is now Owen
County.  He was a Baptist minister for sixty years, and was also a soldier
of the Revolutionary War.  Sarah (Copher) Morgan was born in Switzerland
County, Ind., and immigrated to Kentucky with her father.  She is a
daughter of George W. and Matilda (Griffith) Copher.  Marcus E. Morgan
was educated principally at the State Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Lexington, Ky.  After leaving college he embarked in the drug
business at Gratz, Ky., a village on the banks of the Kentucky River,
with a population of about 275, where he does a prosperous business, and
carries a stock valued at $1,000.  Mr. Morgan is a member of the Christian
Church, and a stanch member of the Democratic party.  He is related to
the late Gen. John Morgan, of the Confederate Army.

Morgan Copher Griffith
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Switzerland-IN SC VA Wales

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