The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . e in the community. He wastwice married, his second wife being [Maria S. Grant, who, with threechildren, survived him. Charles Hill Morgan, president of the Morgan Construction Company,manufacturers oi rolling-mill and wire-drawing machinery, and the MorganSpring Company, makers of fine steel springs, is an eminent mechanicalengineer. He has been prominent in the development of the wire industryand processes for rolling steel into the various commercial shapes, and isstill active along these lines. Almost without an excepti
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . e in the community. He wastwice married, his second wife being [Maria S. Grant, who, with threechildren, survived him. Charles Hill Morgan, president of the Morgan Construction Company,manufacturers oi rolling-mill and wire-drawing machinery, and the MorganSpring Company, makers of fine steel springs, is an eminent mechanicalengineer. He has been prominent in the development of the wire industryand processes for rolling steel into the various commercial shapes, and isstill active along these lines. Almost without an exception the larger steel and wire mills of this countryhave in their works machinery invented or designed by him. He is a direct descendant of Miles Morgan, a native of Wales, who cameto this country in 1836. His mother was a daughter of Doctor Noah Rich,and a woman of superior ability and force of character. Mr. Morgan was born in Rochester, New York, January 8, 1831, but hisparents soon after moved to Massachusetts and settled in Clinton. His *See portrait on page CHARLES H. MORGAN. The Worcester of 1S98. 691 early education was received in the common schools of that day and at theLancaster Academy. At the age of fifteen he began to learn his trade in the machine-shop ofhis uncle, and soon developed a love for mechanical drawing. In 1852,when twenty-one years of age, he was put in charge of the Clinton Millsdye-house. Here he devoted himself to the study of chemistry, and wasable to fill his new position with entire satisfaction and at the same timegain valuable experience in the management of men. For a time Mr. Morganwas draughtsman for the Lawrence Machine Company and for Erastus While with the Lawrence Machine Company he was sent toWorcester to look after the now famous Merrifield engine on LTnion street,which was built by that company and was at that time being erected. In i860 he jilined his brother in a manufacturing enterprise in Philadel-phia, but remaine
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