My Genealogy Hound

MORGAN ELLIOTT, retired, post office Sturgeon, was born in Beaver county, Pa., in 1811, a son of James Elliott, who came from Eastern Pennsylvania, was a tanner by trade, and later followed farming. He married Elizabeth Laughlin, of this county, and twelve children were born to them, five of whom are now living. James died in 1850, aged sixty years. Morgan was born and partially reared on a farm. At sixteen years of age he learned millwrighting, serving an apprenticeship of four years, and followed the trade twenty-five years. In 1857 he purchased one hundred acres of his present farm, which now contains 370. In 1841 he married Mary Walker, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Glenn) Walker, and to them seven children were born: Joseph W., Wilson L., James M., Isabella Glenn (Mrs. Dr. Fife), Hulda Ann (Mrs. A. Fife), Louisa Jane (Mrs. Patterson), and Elizabeth Mary, who died March 2, 1860. Mr. Elliott has retired from active labor, and for twenty years he has been engaged in the dairy business, his sons doing the work on the farm. He is a member of the U. P. Church and is a democrat.