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Morgan, James Brainerd

journalist, poet, was born in Berkeley county, W. Va. In 1870 he founded the Times of Gerardstown, W. Va., of which publication he is still editor and owner. is the author of a number of meritorious poems, some of which were included in Poets of America, and other standard national collections. He has been grand secretary of the Independent Order of Good Templars; and is prominent in the public affairs of his county and state, and a member of various fraternal orders. Mr.

Morgan is an earnest advocate of the temperance reform, and has written largely in both prose and verse in its behalf. In the Independent Order of Good Templars he found congenial work and merited appreciation, having been the secretary of the grand lodge of the state for the past ten years and been sent several times as its representative in the highest legislative body of the order in the world.