- WILLIAM H. MORGAN, farmer, Secs. 4 and 9; P.O. Milton Junction;
born in Danvers, Essex
- Co., Mass.; son of Isaac P and Rebeca MORGAN; they had three
children, two living. William H., the oldest, came to Rock Co.
in the spring of 1866; he enlisted May, 1861, in the 7th Wis.
V.I., Co. B, Capt. Huntington, as a private; was in several battles
and skirmishes; wounded at the battle of Gainesville, Aug. 28,
1863, by minie ball through the neck; was nine months in the
hospital at Alexandria, Va.; transferred to the Invalid Corps,
taken prisoner by rebels, discharged June 1, 1866, by general
order from War Department; was commissioned Second Lieutenant
in regular army Nov. 22, 1863. Married, January, 1866, Miss Lena
MAAS, of Milwaukee, Wis.; have one child - Benjamin T., born
Aug. 28, 1869; is a member of Masonic Order, Lodge 161, Milton;
religion, Universalist; Republican; owns 150 acres; raises cattle,
horses, hogs.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 825.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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