San Francisco County
BARTLETT MORGAN
BARTLETT
MORGAN, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda county and druggist,
bookseller and stationer of
“Bart”
Morgan, the subject of this sketch, received his early education in the log
schoolhouse with puncheon floor, near his father’s farm, and remained with his
parents until the age of seventeen. He
then went into a drug store in Laurel, Indiana, where he remained five years. Having saved some money he went into the dry-goods
business on his own account in Clarksburg, Decatur county,
Indiana. There he was married in 1852 to
Miss Angeline Donnell, a native of that county, who died of consumption some
six months later. In 1853 Mr. Morgan set
out for California by way of New York and Panama, arriving in San Francisco the
end of the same year. He went to mining
in Placerville that winter and moved to Georgetown in 1854. He spent over twelve years mining and
prospecting, and in 1866 opened a drug-store in Georgetown, which he conducted
until 1869, when he moved to this city.
Here he served as clerk in the assessor’s department of the United
States internal revenue, and for a time in San Francisco, when the bureaus of
both cities were united. After two or
three years on this bay he found it advisable to return to Georgetown as a
relief from catarrh, and remained there as clerk about two years. In the spring of 1874 he again came to
Oakland and opened a drug-store, with books and stationery, on the corner of
Market and Seventh streets, where, with the mere change from one corner to the
other. December 1, 1877, he has since
carried on business. He was again
married in 1871, to Catherine Armstrong, who died of consumption in this city
in 1878, leaving no issue. Mr. Morgan
was elected a Supervisor in 1884, and still fills that position by re-election
until the present time, being Chairman of the Board of Supervisors since
1889. His services as Supervisor and
Chairman have met with very general acceptance in the community, and he was
renominated to that office in 1890. He
has been a member of the Republican party since its
organization in this State in 1855, and is now a member of its Central
Committee in this city. He is also a
member of University Lodge, No. 144, I. O. O. F. and has belonged to that order
since February 3, 1870.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
pages 679-680, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.