Morgan, William bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 925-926, Vermont Township
Wm. Morgan, deceased, was born near Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; married Hannah Wheeler and had 3 children; then married Esther Walworth; in 1832 he moved to Ft. Dearborn, Ill. (now Chicago), when there was but one grocery store there; soon afterward he moved to Vermont township. He died, leaving to the care of his wife 7 children. Peter married Miss Martha Crow and resides at Farmington; Walter married Mary Decamppes (?), Diamond City, Montana, and Elsie is deceased. Of the second marriage were born Hannah, who married Geo. Fike and resides at Table Grove; James H., who first married Mary Harmon, and afterward Alice Markham, now residing at Bardolph; Lydia, who married Wm. Haqller and resides in Wayne county, Iowa; Jacob W., who married Lydia Coulter and resides at Foster Point, McDonough Co.; and Charles R., unmarried.