History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . la., but a month later he located at Newton,Kans., where, for a year, he was the manager of a lumber yard. After thathe was in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad, working first as carpenterand then as foreman in their bridge and building department. Not havingproved up on the homestead, he was entitled to another try; and in 1891,when Kiowa and Comanche, Okla., were opened, he drew a number whi
History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . la., but a month later he located at Newton,Kans., where, for a year, he was the manager of a lumber yard. After thathe was in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad, working first as carpenterand then as foreman in their bridge and building department. Not havingproved up on the homestead, he was entitled to another try; and in 1891,when Kiowa and Comanche, Okla., were opened, he drew a number whichgave him a new homestead fourteen miles north of Anadarko. Beginningwith March, 1902, he located on it and improved it; and in 1905 he sold hisclaim. The following year was memorable in his ex]3erience, for he came toCalifornia and found it, from the first, a promised land. He then bought thevineyard he has, a fine tract of forty acres in the Garfield District, only four-teen acres of which were at that time set out to vines; but with the aid ofhis son, H. C. Morgan, he planted the remaining section. \Miile they were atNewton, Kans., in 1890, Mrs. Morgan died, the beloved mother of four chil-. J)cu^cl4 ^/oAtL^ HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY 1263 dren : Iza became ^Frs. Frank \\. Johnson, and died in California, the motherof a girl, Blanche: and Harry C. is a \iticulturist and, as a man of affairs, isassociated with his father in the management of the ranch; Claude D. is inCarthage, AIo., where he has married Aliss Aletha Ferguson; Hattie D. diedin Kansas. Mr. Morgan has frequently proven a leader among his fellowmen. Hewas Justice of the Peace at Sedgwick City, when the country was new andwild, in the stormy days of Kansas, and frequently had cases to keep himbusy for days ahead. He was a councilman at the same city, and also servedas Mayor and as school trustee. In politics, he has become a ProgressiveRepublican. Always interested in the welfare of the Civil War veterans,
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