Diaries : autograph manuscript, 1811-1846.

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Diaries : autograph manuscript, 1811-1846.

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Contains brief entries recording his daily activities first in West Springfield, Mass. and then in Hartford, Conn., such as farm work, the weather, travel destinations, family news, business matters, current events, and politics. Also includes some items laid in, including puchase deeds and a document entitled "Journal of what I did for Aetna in Virginia."

9 v. (ca. 750 p.) ; 20 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Morgan, Joseph, 1780-1847

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Grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his son Junius S. Morgan, 1839 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613020 Born in 1780, Joseph Morgan worked as a schoolteacher and farmer in West Springfield, Mass. before moving to Hartford, Conn. in 1817. There he purchased the Exchange Coffee House, leased the City Hotel, invested in land, and was one of the founders of Aetna Fire Insurance Company. He married Sally...

Morgan family.

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