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Morgan, Thomas Rees

machinist, inventor, manufacturer, was born March 31, 1834, in Wales. At a very early age. he developed unusual mechanical and inventive talent; and early in life occupied positions as a machinist in some of the largest iron works in Cardiff. In 1865 he emigrated to America, subsequently moving to Pittsburg, where he engaged in manufacturing steam hammers and other special machinery. In 1871 he moved to Alliance, Ohio, where he has continued the same business on a very extensive scale. He gathered around him hundreds of trained mechanics and draughtsmen, the various departments of the factory being under the charge of his sons, who are young men of decidedly rare ability. The Morgan Engineering company gives employment to six hundred trained workmen; the machinery produced being mostly of Mr. Morgan's own designing, and is largely covered by patents. He is president of the City Savings bank of Alliance; a director of the Alliance Bank company; president of the Alliance board of trade; vice-president of the Mutual Electric Light and Power company; and in his department of business is one of the best informed men in America. He is one of the trustees of Mount Union college; a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; American Institute of Mechanical Engineers of the United States; and a member of the Iron and Steel Institute and Mechanical Engineers of Great Britain. He died Sept. 6, 1897.