Lyttleton Morgan was the first chairman of the board of trustees of

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, which was renamed in his honor (it was founded as the Centenary Biblical Institute).

Career

Rev. Morgan was "station-preacher" meaning that he generally traveled to different churches to preach the Gospel, without having a church of his own. He had preached at every prominent church in the Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Conference. Morgan also served as chaplain to the

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from 1851 to 1852. He was married to

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, a poet of the Poe era.

, in

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, used to be the Centenary Biblical Institute of the Methodist Episcopal, but was renamed in his honor in 1890.

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