Henry Morgan (minister)

Henry Morgan (1825–1884) was an author and Methodist minister in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.

Portrait of Henry Morgan, ca.1870s

Biography
Morgan Chapel, Shawmut Avenue, Boston, ca.1874

Morgan moved to Boston in 1859. "He preached for some time to an independent congregation in the Music Hall. ... He was a popular lecturer."[1][2]

By 1872 he was pastor and property-owner of the Morgan Chapel, First Independent Methodist Church (est.1861) on Shawmut Avenue (at Indiana Place) in Boston's South End.[3]

Morgan died in 1884. In his will, he gave the Morgan Chapel "property in trust to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches (Unitarian), with the understanding and proviso that it should be managed by a pastor appointed by the New England conference" of Methodists."[4][5]

References
First sentences of Morgan's Boston Inside Out
  1. Samuel Austin Allibone. A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, v.2. J. B. Lippincott company, 1899
  2. Boston Directory. 1868
  3. Boston Directory. 1873
  4. Homiletic Review, v.47, Jan. 1904
  5. Morgan Memorial. Annual report of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in the city of Boston. 1902

Further reading

Works by Morgan
  • Ned Nevins: the news boy, or, Street life in Boston. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867.
  • Shadowy hand; or, Life-struggles: a story of real life, 2nd ed. Morgan Chapel, Boston: H. Morgan, 1874.
  • Boston inside out: a story of real life. 1894 ed.
  • The Fallen Priest: Story Founded on Fact. Key and Sequel of 'Boston Inside Out.' Boston: Shawmut Publishing Company, 1882.
  • From Morgan's Ned Nevins, 1867. Illus. by Taylor & Adams
  • From Morgan's Ned Nevins, 1867: "View of the coal dump"
  • From Morgan's Ned Nevins, 1867: "Effect of Wendell Phillips' speech in Americanizing the Irish"
  • From Morgan's Shadowy Hand, 1874
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