William J. Morgan

William James Morgan (October 16, 1840 – September 5, 1900) was an American newspaper editor and politician.

Early life Morgan was born on October 16, 1840, in Peterborough, Ontario, Upper Canada. He died on the day of his re-nomination by the Republican state convention. Together, they were the parents of three daughters and two sons, including: Morgan, who married William A. Kendall. J. Warren Morgan (b. 1880), a civil engineer. Mai Morgan, who married attorney Richard H. Templeton in 1908.

Morgan died of heart disease on September 5, 1900, at 1 Main Avenue, his home in Albany, New York. His home in Buffalo was 407 Norwood Avenue. Services in Buffalo were held at the Richmond Avenue Methodist-Episcopal Church with the pall bearers as Secretary of State John T. McDonough, State Engineer Edward A. Bond, Attorney General John C. Davies, State Treasurer John P. Jaeckel, Superintendent of Public Works John Nelson Partridge, Speaker of the Assembly S. Frederick Nixon, Deputy Controller Theodore P. Gilman, Thomas Austin, and Judge D. S. Potter of Glens Falls. His wife died in 1909 at the home of their daughter Mai.