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Henry Morgan (1825–1884) was an author and Methodist minister in
Boston
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, in the 19th century.
Biography
Morgan moved to Boston in 1859. "He preached for some time to an independent congregation in the
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. ... He was a popular lecturer."
By 1872 he was pastor and property-owner of the Morgan Chapel, First Independent Methodist Church (est.1861) on Shawmut Avenue (at Indiana Place) in Boston's
South End.
Morgan died in 1884. In his will, he gave the Morgan Chapel "property in trust to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches (Unitarian), with the understanding and proviso that it should be managed by a pastor appointed by the New England conference" of Methodists."
[Morgan Memorial. Annual report of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston. 1902]
References
Further reading
Works by Morgan
Ned Nevins the news boy, or, Street life in Boston. Boston:
Lee & Shepard
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, 1867.
Shadowy hand or, Life-struggles: a story of real life, 2nd ed. Morgan Chapel, Boston: H. Morgan, 1874.
* Boston inside out: a story of real life
1894 ed.* The Fallen Priest: Story Founded on Fact. Key and Sequel of 'Boston Inside Out.' Boston: Shawmut Publishing Company, 1882.
External links
WorldCatGoogle news archive Articles about Morgan Chapel.
Morgan Memorial-Goodwill Industries, recordsat Boston University School of Theology.
Image gallery
Image:1867 NedNevins byHenryMorgan engr by TaylorAdams.png, From Morgan's ''Ned Nevins'', 1867. Illus. by Taylor & Adams
Image:1867 NedNevins byHenry Morgan coal dump.png, From Morgan's ''Ned Nevins'', 1867: "View of the coal dump"
Image:1867 NedNevins byHenryMorgan Wendell Phillips.png, From Morgan's ''Ned Nevins'', 1867: "Effect of Wendell Phillips
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Image:1874 ShadowyHand byHenryMorgan frontispiece.png, From Morgan's ''Shadowy Hand'', 1874
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19th-century Methodist ministers
American Christian clergy
1825 births
1884 deaths
Clergy from Boston
19th century in Boston
People from South End, Boston
19th-century American clergy