. History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people. ed forward to successfulcompletion, bringing him to the presidency of the Security Trust & SavingsBank, of Cedar Falls, which is one of the leading financial institutions of BlackHawk county. He was born December 4, 1864, in the city in which he stillmakes his home, his parents being Peter D. and Caroline (Noll) Mornin. Thefather was born in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland, and the mother was born inPennsylvania and came of Pennsylvania-Dutch parentage. In the year 1854 Peter D. Mornin crossed the Atlantic to the United was then a
. History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people. ed forward to successfulcompletion, bringing him to the presidency of the Security Trust & SavingsBank, of Cedar Falls, which is one of the leading financial institutions of BlackHawk county. He was born December 4, 1864, in the city in which he stillmakes his home, his parents being Peter D. and Caroline (Noll) Mornin. Thefather was born in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland, and the mother was born inPennsylvania and came of Pennsylvania-Dutch parentage. In the year 1854 Peter D. Mornin crossed the Atlantic to the United was then a young man and following his arrival here became associated withJohn FI. Osborn as a sub-contractor on the building of the Philadelphia & Read-ing Railroad. He was married in Newmanstown, Pennsylvania, and in 1858came west to Iowa, traveling by stage from Dunleath, at that time the terminusof the Illinois Central Railroad, to Cedar Falls, crossing the river here on apontoon bridge. He found but a small village containing only a few white peo-. GEORGE S. MOENIN HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY 221 pie and many Indians. He worked at whatever he could do that would give hima living for himself and wife. In later years he was street commissioner ofCedar Falls for seven years and for six years served as a member of the citycouncil. He died in July, 1913, when more than eighty-five years of age, whilehis wife passed away in 1906 at the age of sixty-five years. They were the parents of five children, of whom only George S. Morninsurvives. He was reared in Cedar Falls and attended its schools, passing throughconsecutive grades until he became a high-school pupil. When a youth of seven-teen years he went to work for the Alexander Graham Milling Company, withwhich he was identified until the mill was destroyed by fire. He afterward foundemployment with F. L. Morgan in the drug business at a salary of one hundredand fifty dollars per year, and eventually passed the examination as a pharmacistb
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