St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-18
Id. They ara both married. Daniel ia


never risen to the dignity of being a
barber. Daniel has one son. AS yet,
William has no children TO follow liz the
footsteps of his illustriOus uncle. Frances
Is the name of the eldest sister. She is
put down at f0rty-one years. and is the
mother of bright boy and girl. Alice
Is thirty, just little Older than the
Harvard student. She is the mother of
six boys, who promise to eclipse their
distinguished uncle. Clement and Alice
grew up together. They were the
chums of the family, and in the absence
OF Alice none of the others feel able to
give proper account of ''Clem." Sarah
is twenty-three years old, and is a
teacher. She, too, is married, and is
the mother OF boy and girl. Mana.
the youngest. is twenty-one years OF
aye. She is single still, and Is seam
stress. The mother of this family died
sixteen years ago, and the father, at the
age or seyenty-three, died in George
town last year With the exception of
Clement and William, all the survivors
of this family, with their numerous Off
spring, live together in one frame house
at 1915 Twenty-sixth street, George
town.
THE HOUSE
is superior, both inside and outside, to
the average shauty Of the cOlOred citi-
zen, but it is by no means an ideal place
for study. Ii one wishes to reach the
place by gaslight he must traverse sew
eral streets which cannot afford the
illumination of single gas lamp. and
go round and round for blocks in order
to get solid pavement to walk upon.
However, the light was sufficient and
the pavement good enough to enable a
rnnnrtar IN ch u hnr1c1 OF
Although the name is not in the city di-
rectory, and although no white man
knows where a cOlored man lives
in Georgetown, the reporter had
no difficulty in finding out where
relatives OF Clement Garrett Morgan
lived. To drop into the first barber
shop open was all that was necessary.
Among 10000 or $4,000 cOlored people
in the district there are few who are not
Jubilating over Clements success, al
though the majority have very vague
ideas of what it means. Indeed, Glenn
ent'S own sisters have no very vivid re-
aliZation of it. 1t was Sarah, the school
teacher, who happened to answer the
CORRESPONDENTS call. She is rather
timid in her manner. A gOOd-natured.
vacant sort of a laugh was her answer
TO good many questions. She has the
indOlent, th0ughtlesS negro way of an
swering questions, and in the absence
of Alice she did not feel equal to the
task of saying anything in particular
about Glen. Her fathers full name,
she said was Clement G.. Morgan.
"What does C stand for?"
81 think it is CeciI,". said she, ''but I
am not very sure: and you had better
put down just C."
Then she laughed as necessary sup
plement to her incomplete explanation.
Her mothers name was Elizabeth Gar
nett. just where the old lady got that
name the daughter didn't know, nor
did she know who owned her mother
when the latter was a slave: but she
was not owned by the Garnetts. Mrs.
Fitzgerald, of Fredericksburg, owned
her father, but that lady is dead now.
Clement has always been
VERY MODEST BOY.
Up to the time when he went to st.
Louis to teach school, about nine years
ago, he lived with the rest of the family
plOyed in labOring work around the
pension Office, and, considering his
small pay and his large family. he
could not contribute much to his sons
education even in the public schools.
Neither father nor mother ever had any
education whatever, and If they had
lived to hear their son Clements Grafton
at Harvard they would have wondered
what he was talking about. One thing
he never did talk about to his relatives
and friends-he never said word about
his own aims or expectations, his
studies or his progress in them. 1t
was only through the newspapers that
they ever learned of his taking prizes
at school or college. Since he left home
about nine years ago he paid the family
a visit once year, and wrote home
very frequently. The last time he was
here was last year. when his father
died, but they had letter from him
a word about his studies at Harvard or
the success he had attained. His mod
eSty seems to have been fully equal to
his phenomenal industry.
The barber shop on NJ street, in which
the reporter found the address of the
Morgan family, is one in which Glenn
ent at the very outset of his school days
had to work night and morning, before
and after school hours, to enable him to
keep at school and buy his class books.
Even before that period he had been at
work. His first regular job, accord
ing to his sister, was as a bOCtblack to
Admiral Selfridge, in Washington. The
young man had risen without any out
side help, whatever. Why was it that
he did not follow the example of his
brothers and sisters and get married?
His sisters say he hadn't time. He
never thought of anything but work and
study, and he always said he would not
marry until his school days were over.
II guess he'll marry now that he's
come ont" said his sister. "'There's a
young lady as lives in Springfield. ILL.,.
that think he'll marry. They taught
school together in st. Louis" Mr.. Nor
gan may rely upon it that when he
comes to Washington his friends will
give him great reception.