Biographical Sketch of Carey Elmore Morgan

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Text from Moore, W. T. (editor), The New Living Pulpit of the Christian
Church: A Series of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical, by Representative
Men among the Disciples of Christ, St. Louis: Christian Board of
Publication, 1918. Page 113. This online edition (c) 1998, James L. McMillan.
Copied with permission in 1999 by Dennis Nicklaus from
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~mcmillan/Restlit/Biogs/morgance.htm       
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Born: Johnson County, Indiana, August 21, 1860.
Died: Nashville, Tennessee, May 10, 1925.

Carey E. Morgan can and does do nearly everything well. In addition 
to fulfilling the duties of an important pastorate, he is more or
less associated with many of the enterprises of the Disciples, as the
following record shows:

Carey Elmore Morgan, born in Johnson County, Indiana, August 21, 1860.
Educated in a country school, in the high school at Indianapolis, and at
Butler College, getting the A.B. degree from that institution in 1883, and
the degree of M.A. from the same institution in 1885. Married Miss Ella May
Dailey October 11, 1883. Three children. Two sons, Carey and Walter D., both
of New York City. One daughter, Ruth, now Mrs. Fielding G. Gordon, of
Nashville, Tennessee. Went to first appointment to preach New Year's Day,
1886. Located shortly afterwards as minister of the churches at Arcadia and
Atlanta, Indiana. Began work in Wabash, Indiana, in 1887. Went to Portland
Avenue Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1894. Went to the Seventh Street
Church, Richmond, Virginia, in 1899. To Paris, Kentucky, in 1903. Began his
ministry with the Vine Street Christian Church, Nashville, Tennessee,
January 1, 1912. This is the greatest work of his life.

A curator of Transylvania University since 1904. Vice-president of the
Christian Unity Commission of the Disciples of Christ since its
organization. Member of the Advisory Board for the National Society for
Broader Education. Trustee of the American-Christian Missionary Society
since the Buffalo Convention. President of the American Christian Missionary
Society, 1914-15. Has spoken often at the International Convention of the
church. Has been actively related to all the missionary enterprises of the
brotherhood. Has traveled and studied abroad.

Notwithstanding his activities in many fields of labor he has never written
a book, nor edited a paper, so far as his record gives. Perhaps his most
useful labors have been in pastoral work. He is a wise, conservative, and
popular pastor. He has some gifts as an evangelist though his uncertain
health has prevented him from undertaking very much work in the evangelistic
field. He is eminently suited for church work and adheres faithfully to its
demands.

As a speaker, his words are as clear as sunlight, and as warm as sunshine.
His arguments are generally logically set forth, but these are re-enforced
with a heart power which is almost irresistible.