Theodore M. Morgan

Birth Date

1836-05-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman, soldier, and commissioner. Son of William C. Morgan and Jane C. Morgan. Married to Caroline D. Morgan. Father of Caroline A. Morgan and Theodore H. Morgan. Student in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Served in the 98th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from December 28,1861, to February 5, 1862. Partner in Morgan, Hanson, & Co. in Philadelphia in 1862 and 1863. Appointed commissioner for the Commonwealth of Kentucky on November 4, 1862. Claim agent in Philadelphia in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Northern Liberties Ward 4, p. 239B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Essex County, Caldwell, p. 134A.
Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts of New York State Volunteers, United States Sharpshooters, and United States Colored Troops (ca. 1861-1900), New York State Archives, Albany, New York, Series 13775, Roll #64, 98th Infantry, J-P, Box 67-68, Certificate #1054.
McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory for 1863, 26th edition (Philadelphia, PA: E. C. & J. Biddle & Co., 1863), 547.
Septennial Census Returns, 1779–1863 (1863), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia Ward 22, Records of the General Assembly, RG 7, Box 1026 (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA), p. 177 of microfilm.
“Theodore Miles Morgan (1836-1922)," Find A Grave, Memorial #80845918, accessed May 20, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80845918/.

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