Elder Lewis Morgan was born in Greenville, Tennessee, in 1788; he
came to Indiana and settled in the woods of Shelby county in 1816.  He
at once identified himself with Baptist interests -- was one of the
founders of the General Association, and of Franklin College.  He was
at the front in all the advance moral movements of the time -- as
temperance, Sunday schools, missions, etc.  He was a man of fine
presence and intellectual power.  Elder Ezra Fisher records his high
estimate of Elder Morgan in these words:
   "Brother Morgan was with us at the Cincinnati meeting; he has been
discontinued from his agency in the service of the American Sunday
school Union, we all suppose, through the influence of the General
Agent for Indiana.  Brother Morgan wishes to devote himself to the
cause of Christ; but he says that unless he has some assistance he
must do it at the sacrifice of part of his farm; which he is
determined shall be done if assistance comes from no other quarter."
   In 1833 he uses this language in describing the condition of the
churches when he first began work in the State:
   "When I commenced about nineteen months ago in this State I was
received as a hireling in disguise, or at best as a dupe of a party,
particularly amongst the Baptist denomination, with few exceptions.
The whole of the benevolent institutions of the day were considered to
be a plan of speculation and intended only to answer the purpose of
designing men, and were in the end to prove subversive of our civil
and religious liberties."
   After a long period of labor in Indiana and Iowa he died at
Bellevue, Iowa, in 1852.

From Indiana Baptist History, by William T. Stott, published 1908 by
William T. Stott, pages 142-143. At Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Library.
Retyped 1995 by Dennis Nicklaus