The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-06
COL. H. {. MORGAN FALLS
 DEAD IN A TROLLEY CAR
HAD JUST LEFT HIS OFFICE AT THE STATE
  CAPITOL.

Standing in Rear Vestibule Talking to
 Into Y. M c. A. Building but Before
 Medical Aid Could Arrive He Had
 Succumbed to Heart Disease-His
 Long Service With the State Militia
 Member of Governor Roberts Staff.
 Hartford, Feb. 5.-Colonel Henry c. Morgan, assistant quartermaster gen eral on the staff of Governor Henry Roberts, dropped dead in trolley car this evening here. Colonel Morgan had spent the whole of the day in his office at the capitol and had just left there to go to his residence in this city He was standing in the rear vestlbule otI the car, talking to the conductor, when suddenly he fell forward into the car. As soon as the car was stopped Colonel Morgan was removed and taken into the Y. M. C. A. building, near which the car happened to stop. Medical aid was summoned but when the doctors arrived Colonel Morgan was dead Med ical Examiner H. F. Fuller pronounced death due to heart disease. It is said that Colonel Morgan had been afflicted with heart disease for several years and shortly before his death had been under treatment. He Is survived by a widow, one son, Edward P. Morgan of New York, and two daughters, Mrs. Charles A. Grand, wife of Lieutenant Commander Grand of the United States MT Of bic city. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Julia w. Merrill of Bronxville, N. r., two brothers, William Gardiner Morgan of Hartford, James H. Morgan of Brook lyn, and a nephew, William Dennison Morgan of Hartford. The funeral will take place Wednesday from his resi- dence in this city, to which the body was taken after it had been viewed by the medical examiner Burial will be in Colchester, where the family home stead is.
 Colonel Morgan was born in Brook 1yn, N. r, December 30, 1S42, and re- ceived his education in the Brooklyn Polytechnical school and the Brooklyn collegiate institute. He was the son of Nathan Dennison Morgan, clerk in the office of the Manhattan Life Insur- ance company in New York city, and remained there two years At the age Of eighteen he received from President Lincoln an appointment as first lieuten- ant in the Twelfth United States in- fantry. He served with distinction dur ing the civil war, and among other bat ties was in those of Charlottesville and Gettysburg. In 1863 he was detailed for duty in New York city at the time when the draft for troops was made. He was promoted to a captaincy on June IS, 1863. On July 2, 1863, he was brevted mapor for conspicuous gallan- try at Gettysburg, and on May 5, 1864, he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel in recognition of his services at the battle of the Wilderness, in which he suffered a wound which caused him to lose a leg. He was retired February 7. 1868. After the war he returned te New York and engaged in the life in surance business, becoming secretary of the American Life Insurance company dn 1868, and remaining in that office un- til 1874. Tn that year the family re- moved to Colchester, where Colonel Morgan made his home up to the time of his death
 He entered the state service first in 1881 when on January of that year he was appointed assistant quartermaster general under Governor Bigelow. He served in that office until January 3, 1883. On January 6, 1887, he was reap pointed and remained assistant quarter master general until January 4, 1893, was again reappointed to the same of- flee, January 6, 1897, and served until 1899, when he was made commissary general He was again appointed to the office which he held at the time of his death on January g, 1901.