i.
Evan Morgan(104) died in Feb 1775.
ii.
Doctor John Morgan(105)
(42) was born on Jun 10 1735 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died
on Oct 15 1789 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John Morgan attended the Nottingham
School near Philadelphia and the College of Philadelphia (now the University
of Pennsylvania, graduating with the first class, in 1757. He served an apprenticeship
of six years with Dr. John Redman. He served as a surgeon for the Pennsylvania
provincial troops in the French and Indian War.
In 1760 he traveled to Europe to continue his medical education studying for a year in London and two years at the University of Edinburgh, where he was granted an M.D. degree in 1763. His thesis on the formation of pus has been recognized as a valuable contribution to medical science. He then studied anatomy at Paris and spent several months with Giovani Morgagni in Italy.
When he returned to Philadelphia in 1765, he proposed the establishment of a medical school at the College of Philadelphia, a proposal quickly adopted. His commencement address at the college that year, "A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America," is considered a classic of medical literature. In it he proposed that the functions of physician, apothecary, and surgeon be separated. The idea was ahead of its time, but is now universal.
When trouble first developed between Great Britain and her American colonies, Morgan worked to prevent a breach. He was the author of one of the "Four Dissertations on the reciprocal Advantages of a Perpetual Union between Great Britain and her American Colonies" (1766), but when the breach occurred despite his efforts, he sided with the rebels.
On Oct 17 1775 Congress made him director-general of hospitals and physician-in-chief of the Continental Army. he joined the Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later accompanied it to New York. His high standards and exacting methods caused much jealousy among his subordinates and on Oct 9, 1776, he was made director of hospitals only for the area east of the Hudson River. The following January he was summarily dismissed.
This was a severe blow to him personally and he published "A Vindication of His Public Character in the Station of Director-General of the Military Hospitals, and Physician in Chief of the American Army" in 1777. General Washington exonerated him of any wrong-doing and Congress resolved that he "hath in the most satisfactory manner vindicated his conduct" and declared that as director-general he "did conduct himself ably and faithfully in the discharge of the duties of his office." Among the sacrifices he made in the cause of American independence was the destruction of his medical library, which was lost to the enemy and destroyed.
He was an active member of the American Philosophical Society as well as a member of Academie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris, the Royal Society in London and the Belle-Lettres Society of Rome. He was a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in both London and Edinburgh.
iii.
Hannah Morgan(104) was born in 1737.
She died in 1807.
207 iv.
Anne Morgan.
v.
Martha Morgan(104) was born in 1746.
vi.
Thomas Morgan(104).
vii.
Benjamin Morgan(104) died in 1762.
viii.
Morris Morgan(104) died in 1775.
ix.
Mary Morgan(104).
x.
George Morgan(104) was born on Feb
14 1748. He died on Mar 10 1810.
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