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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1861 Gov. Morgan was born in the town of Washington, Berkshire County, Mass, on the 8th of February, 1811. His father, J asper Morgan, resided in that town till 1822, when he removed with his family to Windsor, Connecticut, where he is still living at a ripe old age. Until he had reached his seventeenth year, Edwin passed his life very much as the sons of New England farmers generally do - in tilling the soil and going to school. But with his common-school education, a capital of thirty-seven and a half cents, and a firm determina tion to succeed in life by his industry and integrity, he went forth to seek his fortune, in 1828, in Hartford, Connecticut. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.