The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-04
MORGAN'S ROMANCE RECALLED BY SHAFT ON FAIRFIELD GRAVE
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 their engagement was announced in 1861 The wedding took place at tho Sturges mansion in New York, in Nc'-- yernber 1861 and it was the society event of the time But beneath the devotion of the young hnancier was the deadly apprehension which af- terward proved to be well founded for the grave had already marked the beautiful bride for its own.
 Soon after the wedding MT. Morgan took his bride to France hoping that she would regain her health in the sunny resorts of southern Bufope. She grew weaker instead of better and February The disconsolate bride. groom. brought the remains of his loved one to Fairfield and she was buried in the Sturges plot in, the East Gem etery which was the original burying ground of the Congregational Church or the Church of Christ which is it's official title.
 Young Morgan made frequent pill grimages to Fairfield and kept up his intimacy with the Sturges family. even after his second marriage which took. place several years afterwards.
 Few residents of the town ever knew of his comings or goings. He would appear for a. few days when his great business interests would all low and depart as quietly as he came. Numerous anecdotes are told of him during this period. He was passing & few days at the Sturges home when the first and disastrous battle of Bull Run was fought He was then deep ly involved in the problem of fnanc- ing the government in it's struggle for existence. During the day he receiv- ed a cipher dispatch from New York, and retired to the library with his code to decipher it. He returned to =s.- e. I,G- strong and intelligent face bearing marks of extreme depression He told the company that he had very bad news to comm unicate to them and then went on to tell that the dis patch had contained the information that the Union army had suffered a crushing defeat and was then rushing His demeanor and words on this oc- casion made a never-to- be-forgotten impression upon those present.
 To his Fairfield friends John Pier pont Morgan was genial, kindly and altogether 1ovabIe. He despised all world as quietly possible His devotion to art is known over the en- tire world where any artistic impulses have developed. His benefacttons have reached far into the millions, and no one of them has been large enough to dCETacL great aLIenI1On= 9X- cept those which have been connected with the preservation of articles of artistic merit
 As a memorial to his early love he placed the magnificent organ in the Congregational church at Fairfield. Later he purchased the bell whose tones are heard every Sabbath. His keen perceptive faculties are evil denced by a hundred different anec- dotes. After a lapse of years he again visited the home of his first wife. In the meantime a fire had de-. vastated the estate and destroyed two summer houses one of which was in significant. He inquired about the two summer houses, one of which had been forgotten by the oldest soI, who questioned the accuracy of the mem ory of his, brother-in-law. It was finally established beyond question that the second summer house had ex isted in a hedge and had been a tryst- ing place for the young man and his prospective bride.
 Jonathan Sturges passed to his Father in November, 1874. He was laid beside his daughter in the Old East Cemetery where many of his an cesters rest His two sons, Frederick and Henry c. Sturges now occupy handsome residences on opposite sides of the green at Old Mill Plain. They are worthy sons of 8 worthy sire and do honor to the ancestral line. In business matters they have always been associated with the house of Morgan to the success of which their father contributed no small part.
 There still remains a few who re- member Amelia Sturges in her girl hood and they testify to the beauty of face and of character of the choice of the taciturn young man who af- terwards became the ruling financial rocvuaT4 fT1
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