|--------Adonijah MORGAN (1755, VA - 1827, Indiana)
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|---------Lewis MORGAN (1788, Tennessee - 1852, Iowa)
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| |--------Isabelle Jean MCMAHON (1765, Scotland - 1829, Indiana)
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|------Daniel A. M. MORGAN (1808, Kentucky - 1869, Indiana)
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| | |--------Joel MATTHEWS (1755, (probably) Virginia - 1834, OH)
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| |---------Sally MATTHEWS (1788, TN - 1811)
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| |--------Patty (1757, (probably) Virginia - )
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Carey Elmore MORGAN (1860, Indiana - 1925, TN)
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|------Mary MCCASLIN (Indiana - )
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Mr. Morgan is one of the most brilliant members of the middle
generations of ministers. Indiana claims him as her son, and Butler College is
happy to number him among her alumni. Like many of our well known ministers he
stepped from the schoolroom to the pulpit.
C. E. Morgan began his ministry in 1886, in the churches of Arcadia and Atlanta,
Ind. After serving his apprenticeship in these churches he accepted the
pastorate at Wabash, Ind. Where he labored most successfully for seven years,
when he accepted a call to Minneapolis, Minn. During his stay of nearly six
years in the ``Flour City,'' he succeeded in gaining for the church a position and
recognition it had not previously enjoyed. He took his place in the front ranks
of the most excellent ministry of the Northern metropolis. The plea of the
Disciples is practically unknown in the great Northwest. Mr. Morgan's work and
influence was of in incalculable value to our cause, not only in the ``Twin
Cities,'' but also throughout the ``Gopher State.''
While in Minneapolis he was a member of the faculty and one of the officers of
the Northwestern Christian College, situated in Excelsior, an hour's ride from
the city. He labored with others heroically to put this institution upon a firm
foundation, but the building was entirely destroyed by fire some three years ago
and has never been rebuilt.
In the summer of '99 Mr. Morgan received a call from the Seventh
Street Church in historic Richmond, Va. This is one of the strongest
and best congregations in the entire brotherhood. He began his
pastorate here under most suspicious circumstances last September.
Carey E. Morgan is one of the most friendly, congenial and versatile
men one will meet. It is not too much to forecast for him many years
of profitable service in the Master's vineyard. He is an honor to
the brotherhood and makes friends for the Christ, his church and for
himself wherever he goes. The subject of this sketch is still a young
man, being on the sunnyside of forty.
Carey served as minister in Paris, Kentucky from 1903 to 1911.
He reached even more prominence in the Christian Church after he moved to Nashville, Tennessee. He was minister of the Vine Street church from 1911 until his death. He performed more than 2000 marriages while in Nashville. He also was a professor of homilitics at Vanderbilt University from 1918 to 1924, when he had to resign that position due to his health. In 1918, he went to France for the YMCA. For three months he worked among the soldiers at the front. Most of his time in France was spent along the line of action, being between the light and heavy artillery during the campaign which immediately followed St. Mihiel. During the war he was also engaged in the promotion of Liberty Loan drives and other war-time activities.
The Vine Street Church was originally founded as a baptist church by a distant cousin of Carey Morgan named Jeremiah Vardeman.
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