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Charles Miller Floyd was born June 5, 1861. in Derry, and received his primary education in the brick schoolhouse at East Derry. He was subse- quently a student at Pinkerton Academy, and the last of his attendance at school was at the age of fourteen years. During the summers when he was twelve and thirteen years old he was employed at farm labor by Benjamin Adams, a farmer in Derry. He subsequently worked in the shoe shop of Will- iam S. Pillsbury. With the natural Yankee apti-
tude for trade, he very early began speculating in produce, and when twenty years old went to Haver- hill, where he was employed in a hardware store and remained nearly two years. After the death of his parents he returned to his native place and bought the home farm, which he cultivated for two seasons and then sold. He was subsequently em- ployed in Haverhill by his elder brother in the clothing store, where he worked two and a half years.
In 1888 Mr. Floyd removed to Manchester, and bought the clothing establishment of N. W. Cum- ner, which he carried on for five years, on the west side of Elm street. At the end of that time he bought out the Manchester One Price Clothing House, which occupies its present location at the northeast corner of Elm and Manchester streets, where he has ever since continued business. Under his management the patronage has been greatly ex- tended, and he now carries one of the largest stocks of clothing and gentlemen's furnishings to be found in the state. His business activities have not been confined to the clothing trade, and he has been instrumental in bringing to Manchester sev- eral industries, and in their successful operation now give employment to several thousand people. In 1891, in partnership with F. M. Hoyt, he purchased sixty-five acres of land in the southern and eastern part of the city, and made extensive additions to the city streets and blocks, and on these they built a large shoe factory which now employs seven hundred people. He was a stockholder in the Ken- nedy Land Company, and had charge, as treasurer and chairman of the building committee, of the con- struction of the large manufacturing building sub- sequently occupied by the Joslyn Furniture Factory. and now the home of a heel factory, employing two hundred and fifty people. Mr. Floyd's next in- vestment was in the wood-working establishment of Austin, Flint & Day. and he formed a stock com- pany to operate it, known as the Derryfield Com- pany, of which he is the president and one of the board of managers. This establishment makes a large output of doors, sashes, blinds and interior fittings. He was president of the East Side Build- ing Company, which erected a large shoe factory, now employing eight hundred hands. He was also president of the Cohas Building Company, which has erected one of the finest modern shoe manufac- turing plants in the state of New Hampshire, where seven hundred people are now employed. MIr. Floyd was ten years a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank, and is a director of the Manchester National Bank. of the Manchester Traction, Light & Power Company, and of the Manchester Building & Loan Association, and is extensively engaged in a wholesale way in lumbering. In 1895 he re- purchased the homestead on which he was born, consisting of one hundred acres, which he managed as a farm and where he has his summer home. He has been a member of the school board of Man- chester, and is now a member of the board of water commissioners.
Mr. Floyd has been among the most active and influential members of the Republican party of New Hampshire, and served as state senator in 1899 and 1900. and hecame a member of the governor's coun- cil, January 1, 1905. He was elected governor of the state in 1906. The contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1906 was the fiercest in the history of the state. It began during the session of the legislature of 1905 when several men who had long nurtured an ambition to fill the executive chair and had been prominent in political
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affairs anounced their candidacy. At that time Mr. Floyd was just beginning a term as a member of the governor's council, to which he had been elected from the Manchester district by a large majority. which attested his popularity among his neighbors. Outside of that district he was little known. In re- mote sections of the state he was not known at all even by name. He had been a liberal contrib- ntor and a zealous worker for his party and his friends, many of whom owed their political success largely to him, but his activities had been confined to a comparatively narrow circle, and beyond this he had neither following nor acquaintance, and when in the summer he published, over his own name, a statement that he would be a candidate before the state convention, many of the leaders looked upon it as a joke, and other aspirants and their supporters were astonished by and afterwards savagely resented the audacity of the man, who, without official record, with only a local reputation. with the organization nearly solid and the leading men of the party nearly all against him, had dared enter the lists for the highest office in the gift of the people. Later on there was added the hostility of those whose battle cry was "revolution" and as the canvass went on it increased in rancor, slander and recklessness. Never was a candidate more sav- agely assailed, more shamelessly villified, publicly and privately, than was Mr. Floyd, but the storm that swept over him neither stopped nor swerved him and it is sufficient to say that when the conven- tion met, he went into it with two hundred delegates who could neither be bribed, scared or stampeded, whose motto was "Floyd Forever." who were there to win if it took all summer and who did win. The disappointments and bitterness of the canvass remained to some extent during the campaign, caus- ing some who had been active workers to sulk in the tents, others to give aid and comfort to the Democracy, whose campaign consisted in circula- . ting the insinuations and falsehoods of the struggle for the nomination. But it did not avail. Mr. Floyd was elected governor. His inaugural was awaited with great interest by his friends, who ex- pected it would be a creditable business paper, and by his opponents, many of whose minds had been so poisoned by what had gone before that they looked to see it reveal an ignorant, presumptious man who owed his elevation to his audacity and in- excusable persistency. It surprised his friends, for it was better than they had dared to hope for, and it converted into friends his candid opponents, for disclosed a knowledge of state affairs, an apprecra- tion of the dignity and duties of the office, a clear conception of what was right and a high purpose to bring it about, which was wholly unexpected by them. No governor's message was more heartily acclaimed by those who heard it, more universally applauded by the press or more generally ap- proved by the people. The course therein outlined by him has been followed with scrupulous fidelity. and the people of the state hold him in high regard as a strong, self-made, honest and fearless man who is devoted to their interests and worthy to stand in the long line of illustrious governors who have served the commonwealth to the public good and with honor to themselves. He is a member of the Second Congregational Society of Manchester. He is affiliated with the Masonic Order, with Ridgely Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Thornton Naval Veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic and Derryfield and Calumet clubs.
He was married September 16, 1886, to Carrie E. Atwood, who was born December 16, 1861, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd have a daughter, Marion Beatrice. aged sixteen years, who is now a student of the Walnut Hill Preparatory School, at Natick, Massachusetts.
It is not every American family MORGAN whose pioneer ancestor is honored by a noble statue like that erected to Miles Morgan in Court Square. in the beautiful city of Springfield, Massachusetts. This statute was _n- veiled in 1879, just two hundred and ten years after the death of the man whose virtues it cominemor- ates. The Morgan name has been notable in Amer- ica in many ways, especially in military records. Major General Daniel Morgan was one of the famous officers of the Revolution. He was voted a gold. medal by the Continental congress for his victory at the Cowpens, where he met and defeated General Tarleton. His corps of riflemen with which he marched to join Washington before Cambridge were the first skirmishers known to military science. When the British troops returned to England they carried with them the tradition of "Morgan's huck- skin devils." Dr. John Morgan, of Philadelphia, was another distinguished officer of the Revolution. At the age of twenty-five he volunteered his services in the French and Indian wars. In 1760 he went to Europe, where he remained for five years, studying his profession at Edinboro, Paris and Padua. In 1776 he became surgeon-general of the American army by appointment of the first Continental con- gress, resigning in 1780 to resume practice in Phila- delphia. Brigade Major Abner Morgan was another Revolutionary patriot. His home was at Brimfield, Massachusetts, and he was a warm friend of Gen- eral John Sullivan, of New Hampshire. in whose command he served. In 1783 he built the largest house in Brimfield from timbers cut in his own saw mills, and he introduced through the heavy masonry a rivulet to lave a hollowed-out rock in which to cool his wine. In 1896 this house was still stand- ing in perfect condition, and the rivulet was still running. During the second war with England, Brigadier General David Banister Morgan, born at West Springfield, Massachusetts, was second in command with Jackson's army at the battle of New Orleans. Commodore Charles William Morgan, United States navy, of Virginia, was in the engage- ment between the "Guerriere" and the "Java" in 1812. The family was represented in the Mexican war by Colonel Edwin Wright Morgan. United States army. During the Civil war Brigadier Gen- eral John H. Morgan, of Lexington, Kentucky, was one of the most daring officers of the Confederate side. He organized a band of guerillas, and "Mor- gan's raid" struck terror to Indiana and Kentucky. There were several generals on the Union side. General Thomas J. Morgan, born in Franklin, Indi- ana, was but twenty-five years of age when the Civil war closed, and was one of the youngest men on the Union side to be made a brigadier-general for gal- lantry and meritorious services, Another Morgan who became illustrious during the Civil war was Edwin Denison Morgan, the great war governor of New York. He later became United States senator, and twice declined the secretaryship of the treas- ury. During his lifetime and by his will he gave more than a million dollars to philanthropic and edu- cational work. The Morgans are scarcely less illus- trious as financiers than soldiers. Daniel Naslı Mor- gan, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. was treasurer of + the United States from 1893 to 1897. The history
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of J. Pierpont Morgan and his father, Junius Spencer Morgan, both eminent bankers, is too well known to need further recital here.
The word Morgan is a Cymric derivative, mean- ing one born by the sea (muir, sea; gin, begotten). The little town of Caermathen in Wales is the place where this famous name originated. The town itself is supposed to be the Maridunum mentioned by Cæsar in his Commentaries. It may have been the place that Shakespeare had in mind as the scene of those parts of Cymbeline that are located in Wales. It will be remembered that Belarius in the third scene of the third act of that play speaks thus : "Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan called." Prior to the Roman invasion this district was inhabited by a warlike tribe called by the Romans the Demetae. A chieftain of this tribe, Cadivor-fawr, died in the year 1089. His wife was Elen, daughter and heiress of another chieftain, Llwch Llawan. The names of the two oldest sons are unknown, but the Morgan line finds its first ancestral with the third son, Bled- dri. Mr. George T. Clark, the antiquary, has pre- pared a table tracing the lineage of the Morgan family in England and Wales to this Bleddri. In the sixteenth generation from Bleddri we find Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar, knighted in 1633, member of parliament from his county, 1623-25. He died at the age of ninety-three. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Winter, of Sidney. Their daughter Elizabeth, the youngest of the ten children, married William Morgan, a merchant of Dderw. They went to Bristol, England, in 1616, where Elizabeth died in 1638, and William died in 1648. Their son, Miles Morgan, born in 1616, is the ancestor of the Morgan family in America.
(I) Miles Morgan emigrated from Bristol, Eng- land, to Boston, Massachusetts, in January, 1636. Soon after reaching this country, in company with a number of other colonists, under command of Colonel William Pynchon, he set out for western Massachusetts. They were attracted by the reports they had heard of the exceedingly fertile meadows in the "ox-bows of the long river" (the Connecti- cut). Of this company Miles Morgan, though the youngest and the only one under twenty-one years of age, soon became second in command. The party settled in what is now the city of Spring- field, Massachusetts. They gave it the name of Agawam, which it bore until 1640, when for some unexplained reason the name of Springfield was bestowed. Miles Morgan speedily became one of the most valued men in the colony, an intrepid Indian fighter, a sturdy husbandman, and a wise counsellor in the government. In the practical di- vision of the sumptuary duties of the colony he became the butcher, while Colonel Pynchon was the grocer and justice of the peace. Miles Mor- gan's allotment comprised the lands now occupied by the car and repair shops of the Boston & Maine railroad, and they remained in the family at least two hundred years before the alienation. In the
early days of our country it was customary to seat persons in the meeting-house according to their rank; so when we find that in 1663 Sergeant Miles Morgan was given the third seat from the pulpit in the Springfield meeting-house, that fact suffi- ciently attests his dignity in the infant colony. There is a pretty romance connected with Miles Morgan's marriage. Captain Morgan, as he soon hegan to be called, came over in the same ship with Prudence Gilbert. In fact, there is a tradition to the effect that it was on her account that he em- barked. It is said that he first saw the fair Pru- dence while he was wandering about the wharves
at Bristol, and that he decided at short notice to sail with the ship on which she was going, that he did not even have time to send word to his parents. Her people settled in Beverly, now a suburb of Boston. As soon as Captain Morgan had received his allotment of land in Springfield he started back to Boston on foot with an Indian guide to claim his bride. After the wedding the return trip was made, also on foot, but, in addition to the bridal pair and the Indian, a horse, bought in Beverly, was brought along, which like the Indian was loaded down with the household goods of the newly mar- ried couple. The two burden-bearers walked in front while Captain Morgan, matchlock in hand, followed with his bride. The town of Springfield was sacked and burned by Indians in King Philip's war in 1675. Colonel Pynchon being absent, the command devolved upon Captain Morgan. Among the killed was his own son, Peletiah, only fifteen years of age. The houseless colony took refuge in the stockade about Morgan's house. A friendly Indian in Captain Morgan's employ made his escape to Hadley, where Major Samuel Appleton, com- mander-in-chief of the Massachusetts Bay troops, happened to be stationed at the time. Major Ap- pleton was able to spare fourteen men, who re- turned to Springfield, and dispersed the Indians. Eight children were born to Miles and Prudence (Gilbert) Morgan: Mary, Jonathan, David, Pele- tiah, Isaac, Lydia, Hannah and Mercy. Mrs. Pru- dence (Gilbert) Morgan died November 14, 1660; and more than eight years after, February 15, 1669, her husband married Elizabeth Bliss. of Spring- field. They had one child Nathaniel, born June 14, 1671. Captain Morgan died May 28, 1699, aged eighty-four years.
(II) Nathaniel, only child of Miles and his second wife, Elizabeth ( Bliss) Morgan, was born June 14, 1671. He married Hannah Bird, of Spring- field, Massachusetts, June 19. 1691, and built a house at West Springfield, on the east side of what is now Chicago street, where he died August 30, 1752. Their children were: Nathaniel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Hannah, Miles, Joseph; Isaac and Eliza- beth. It is from this branch of the family that the noted banker, J. Pierpont Morgan, is descended, he being the great-great-grandson of Joseph.
(III) Ebenezer, third son and child of Na- . thanicl and Hannah (Bird) Morgan, was born March 6, 1696. He married Mary Horton, Janu- ary, 1719. His second wife was Sarah Warner. whom he married June 20, 1737. He had five chil- dren, and from the dates of their birth they must all have been offspring of the second marriage. The children were Ebenezer, Samuel, Sarah, Cather- ine, and Chloe.
(IV) Sarah, eldest daughter and third child of Ebenezer and Sarah (Warner) Morgan, was born November 18, 1742, and married her cousin, Titus (2) Morgan. It has been impossible to trace the antecedents of Titus Morgan, but he was prob- ably a near cousin of his wife's. They were married. May 19, 1763, and had nine children: Erastus, Gaius and Quartus (twins), Julius, Pliny, Archip- pus, Titus, Sally and Hiram. The classical names which distinguished six of the children make an interesting contrast to the plain Yankee cognomens of the two youngest.
(V) Erastus, eldest of the nine children of Titus and Sarah (Morgan) Morgan, was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, March 29, 1764. He built the first dam on the Connecticut river at Holyoke, Massachusetts. He married Clarissa Chapin, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, De-
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cember 31, 1789. They had six children: Calvin, Clarissa, Warren, Lewis, Huldah and Quartus Miles. (VI) Quartus Miles, fourth son and youngest child of Erastus and Clarissa (Chapin) Morgan, was born in Huntington, Massachusetts, June 17, ISIO, and was educated at Chicopee Academy. He was a veterinary surgeon. shoemaker and farmer, and a very successful man. In politics he was a Democrat, and he held various town offices. He was married (first), January 13, 1836. to Lucy Horton, and they were the parents of six children, namely : Hosea Edward, Laura Jane, Fanny A., Mary A. Russell, Charles Louis and Henry Lorell. The mother died August 3, 1861, and Mr. Morgan was subsequently married to Hannah Mills, daugh- ter of Gardiner and Mary Mills, of Warwick, Mas- sachusetts. They had six children: Henry, Clara, Fanny, Mary, Laura and Edward Myles. Quartus M. Morgan died in 1889, and was survived about nine years by his widow, who passed away in 1898.
(VII) Edward Miles, only living child of Quartus Miles and Hannah (Mills) Morgan, was born in Warwick, Massachusetts. May 31, 1867. and was educated in the common schools of that town. He was always identified with the lumber business in his native state. He came to New Hampshire in 1902, and to Warner in 1906, and operates several large saw mills. In his native town of Warwick he served as selectman, assessor, con- stable and supervisor of the poor. He is a Republi- can in politics, and attends the Congregational Church. He married Minnie Louise Jaynes, daugh- ter of William D. and Elizabeth L. Jaynes, of War- wick, Massachusetts, August 20, 1892. and they have eight children: Dorothy L., born April 25, 1893; Stephen and Rachel (twins), August 25, 1894; Miles Edward, November 26, 1895; Joseph Giles, May 20, 1897; Olive Eleanor, December 21, 1899; Clarissa, October 4, 1900; Esther Minnie, November 6, 1905.
(Second Family. )
Another line of this name is traced
MORGAN from a, very early period in the set- tlement of Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, and includes numerous well known and use- ful citizens of the state.
Richard Morgan arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, previous to 1650. It is presum- able that he was of Welsh birth or at least of Welsh ancestry. Probably he was induced to come to America by the freedom here afforded in re- ligious matters. He immediately settled at Dover, where record of him appears. In the same year he finally settled in Brentwood, near Exeter. and a deed given by him to Peter Coffin in 1699, shows that he was alive at that time.
(II) John, only child of Richard Morgan, married Mary Powell, and they had two sons, John and Simeon.
(III) John (2), elder son of John (I) and Mary (Powell) Morgan, was born in Brentwood. where he died in 1786. He married Abigail Cove, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and their children were : Joanna, David, Parker, Judith, Elizabeth and Abigail.
(IV) Parker, second son and third child of John (2) and Abigail (Cove) Morgan, was born December 12, 1757, in Brentwood. A considerable portion of his early manhood was spent in Gil- manton. He was a Revolutionary soldier and in- formation at hand states that he enlisted shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill in Colonel Enoch Poor's regiment at Winter Hill, Massachusetts, that
he was wounded at the battle of Bemis Heights and subsequently discharged on account of physical disability. He recovered, however, and enlisted in the navy at Portsmouth on board of the ship of war "General Mifflin," which captured numerous prizes. In the New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls the name of Parker Morgan cannot be found. Those of Massachusetts contain the following entry : "Parker Morgan, Private, Captain Stephen Jack- son's company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's regiment. Enlisted August IS, 1777, discharged November 30, 1777, served 3 mos., 27 days under Gen. Gates in the northern department. 14 days (280 miles ) travel home, order for payment of amount of roll dated at Newburyport and signed by Captain Jen- kins." After leaving the Continental service he went to reside in Brentwood, but later removed to Kensington, subsequently to Gilmanton and finally to Meredith, where he died October 21, 1821. June 7. 1781, he married Betsey Sanborn, daughter of Richard, Jr., and Elizabeth ( Batchelder) Sanborn, of Kensington, who were married June 21, 1713, and her death occurred September 30, 1838. Their children were: John, born January 24, 1782, died September 12, 1795; Jeremiah, April 16, 1784, died September 27, 1856; Betsey, January 18, 1789, died September 26, 1877; Taffen, April 3, 1793, died August 7, 1793; Nancy, April 7, 1796; died Au- gust 14, 1824; Charles, April 30, 1799, died Decem- ber 16, 1882; Fanny, August 1, 1801, died Febru- ary 3, 1897; John Taffen, January 31, 1805, died April 10, 1845.
(V) Charles, third son and fourth child of Par- ker and Betsey (Sanborn) Morgan, was a native of Kensington, born April 30, 1799. He was an engineer, both civil and mechanical, and actively concerned in the building of several important industrial enter- prises in New Hampshire and Maine. He super- intended the erection of the first cotton mill in Man- chester; was associated with others in erecting the Gilford and Meredith Company's mill at Laconia; assisted in surveying the Concord and Montreal railway; and was subsequently for a time in charge of the Amoskeag Company's machine shops at Manchester. He was afterward superintendent of the Saco Water-Power Company's plant at Saco, Maine. He finally engaged in the furniture busi- ness at Biddeford, Maine, which he carried on suc- cessfully until his retirement, and he died in Saco December 16, 1882. He was a member of the Congregational Church and while residing in La- conia was actively interested in the erection of a church edifice in that place. He married Sarah Ann Robinson, a descendant of Thomas Wiggin, the first proprietary governor of New Hampshire, also from the Dudley family which dates its lineage from the time of William the Conqueror and was of the English nobility. She was a native of Mere- dith Village, and a daughter of Colonel Noah Rob- inson, who was the son of an officer in the Revo- lution. She became the mother of five children, three of whom are living, namely: Eustis Parker. a resident of Saco, Maine: Sarah E., widow of Hiram M. Goodrich, late of Nashua (see Goodrich) ; and Charles Carroll Morgan, a well-known resident of Nashua, and a retired lawyer.
(VI) Charles Carroll, son of Charles and Sarah A. (Robinson) Morgan, was born in Mere- dith (now Laconia) July 25, 1832. From the Gil- ford Academy, Meredith, he went to the Manchester high school, and from the latter he entered Brown University, remaining there until the close of his freshman year. He then began the study of law, but relinquished it for a time in order to accept
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