Morgan L. Noble (1817–1857) was an American

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, and later

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from

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, who spent two one-year terms in 1849-1850 as a member of the

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from Fond du Lac County, first as a Free Soiler, then as a

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. Morgan came to Fond du Lac in 1845 as a circuit rider, but a colleague would remember years later that while Noble was "a man of superior talent", his health proved unequal to the challenges of the role, and at the end of the two-year term he first "took a location" (i.e., ceased riding a circuit), and eventually sought a secular profession. While serving on the circuit, he was reportedly "in great demand at all weddings." He and a fellow Methodist minister built a house which they shared in town, but when the two quarreled, they divided their interests by sawing the building in two.

Public office

In 1849, he succeeded Whig

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for the

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's Second Session as a member of the Assembly's 2nd Fond du Lac County district (the

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, Taychedah and Fond du Lac), being elected as a Free Soiler. He was re-elected for the 1850 session, but had now switched to the Democratic Party. He was succeeded in 1851 by Morris S. Barnett, also a Democrat. He served Fond du Lac as a

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in 1852, and an

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in 1853. In 1857, Noble was elected to the Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives; he resigned before the start of the 1857 extra session. Noble moved to

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in 1857 and settled in

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with his wife and family. He died in Stockton, California.

Shinglemaking

In 1853 Noble became a partner with lumberman Charles Colman (son of an old Methodist clerical colleague) in the manufacturing of

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. In 1854 they took their horse-powered shingle-making machine and moved the business to

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, and in 1855 Colman bought out his partners."Colman, Charles Lane 1826 - 1901" in ''Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography''

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