THEO.
D. MORGAN, superintendent of the Sharon Iron Works, was born in New
Castle-on-Tyne, England, February 24, 1853, and is a son of David
and Elizabeth Morgan, natives of Wales. In 1856 the family immigrated
to Pittsburgh, where David was a manager of iron mills about thirty
years. He is now a resident of Sharon, and connected with the Sharon
Iron Works. Our subject grew up in Pittsburgh, and learned the iron
business in that city. He took a scientific course and was graduated in
chemistry from Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1874. For one year he was
one of the writers on the American Manufacturer of Pittsburgh. Mr.
Morgan was assistant superintendent of the Baugh Rolling Mills of
Detroit three years; superintendent of the Judson Rolling Mill,
Oakland, Cal., one year; had charge of the steel department of the
Pennsylvania Iron & Steel Works one year, and was manager of the
Chess. Cook & Co. steel mill of the same city a short time. In
April, 1887, he came to Sharon to accept the position of superintendent
of the Sharon Iron Works, which he has since filled. He is one of the
inventors and patentees of an improved machine for the manufacture of
wire nails on a cut-nail machine, and also of an improved reversing
valve for regenerative gas furnaces and several other improvements on
gas furnaces. Mr. Morgan was married August 21, 1875, to Miss
Jennie M. White, of Glenwood, Pittsburgh, Penn., who is the
mother of two children, Minnie and Lottie. He is a Republican in
politics, a member of the Masonic order and A. O. U. W., and the family
belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. p 744
History of Mercer County, 1888 page 744; Transcribed and Submitted by Marjorie Henninge
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