His son, Zackquill Morgan, later founded present-day Morgantown.

Born near Morgantown ( and kin to its founder Zackquill Morgan ), Pierpont grew up in western Virginia, in what is today Marion County, West Virginia ; he was linked with the region's history for the rest of his life.

Colonel Zackquill Morgan was a son of Welsh-born Colonel Morgan Morgan, the first known white settler in what would become the U. S. state of West Virginia, and his wife, Catherine Garretson.

Most historians believe that David Morgan and his younger brother Zackquill Morgan were the next Europeans to attempt a permanent settlement in Monongalia County.

A family tradition attributes the settlement of Zackquill Morgan, in 1768, but at that time he appears to have been still living in what was later Fayette County.

Prior to the Revolutionary War ( before 1766 because his father died in 1766 ) his father, Morgan Morgan deeded to Zackquill, patented in November 1735.

Despite the accounts of various historians, we still do not know when Zackquill Morgan settled on the site of Morgantown, nor indeed, who made the first settlement on that site.

Nicholas Decker, the first settler to establish a settlement in the vicinity of what is now Morgantown, on 29 April 1781, surveyed for Zackquill Morgan assignee of Isaac Lemasters, of land in Monongalia County, on Deckers Creek and the Monongahela River, including his settlement thereon in the year 1772, agreeable to and in part of a certificate for from the commissioners of adjusting claims to unpatented lands in the county of Monongalia — James Chew, assisted Mr. James Madison, surveyor.

Morgantown was established by an act reading as follows: Be it enacted by the General Assembly that of land, the property of Zackquill Morgan, lying in the county of Monongalia shall be — laid out in lots of half an acre each, with convenient streets which shall be established as a town by the name of " Morgans Town ".

Zackquill Morgan opened the town's first tavern in 1783.

The inventory of Zackquill Morgan's personal property, made on December 6, 1795, by James Dunn, Morgan Morgan, and Richard Merrifield, included the following: 1 mare and colt 10 pounds 15 shillings ; 1 old red cow 2 pounds ; 1 old red cow and bell and collar 2. 7. 6 ; 1 dark brown heifer ( 3 years old ) 2. 10. 6 ; 1 cow and calf 2. 7. 6 ; 1 small year-old heifer. 15 ; 1 small year-old steer. 15 ; 2 hogs @. 15 each 1. 10 ; 1 sow and 3 shotes,. 24, 2. 14 ; 1 pair plow irons. 25 ; 5 sheep @ 9 / 6 3. 12 ; 1 coat, wescot and pair of stocking 4 ; 1 bed and furniture 5 ; 7 pewter plates and 1 pewter salt celler. 13. 3 ; 1 old tea kettle ; 1 candle stick ; 2 flat irons ; 1 old iron kettle and hooks 6 / 3 ; 1 pot and 2 trimels. 15, 1. 13 ; total 47 pounds and 14 shillings.

Zackquill Morgan and Nancy Paxton had the following children:

Zackquill Morgan and Drusilla Springer had the following children:

A younger brother Zackquill ( Zackwell ) Morgan founded Morgantown, West Virginia which is the town where West Virginia University is located.

Levi's father, Colonel Zackquill Morgan, was a very prominent man who had the friendship of George Washington as well as others.

Another son, Zackquill, founded Morgantown, West Virginia.

In 1782, after the extension of the Mason-Dixon line made his home a part of Pennsylvania, the county seat was moved south, first to Colonel John Evans ' home and ultimately to Zackquill Morgan's home in present-day Morgantown.

According to family tradition, Zackquill and his brother David served with Virginia forces in Braddock's ill-fated expedition and in the more successful expedition by General Forbes in 1758.

During the Revolutionary War, Zackquill was " County Lieutenant " of Monongalia County with the title of colonel.

In 1761 Zackquill received from his father one thousand acres ( 4 km² ) of land in Berkeley County which had been patented in 1735.

According to a deed on file at Uniontown, PA, Zackquill was living at Great Meadow, Bedford County, PA on August 28, 1771, when he sold his farm there.

Zackquill served throughout the war with distinction and died several years after peace was declared.

Regardless of when Zackquill moved to the site of the city to bear his name, we find a surveyor's record indicating that the land was surveyed for him on April 29, 1781.

Before Zackquill's death in 1795, he lived in a house on Front Street later owned by his son, Zackquill.

This is the house in which Drusilla, grand-daughter of Zackquill I, was born in 1814 and in which she lived continuously until her death in 1904.

Zackquill may have been living near his brother David at Pleasantville until 1779 or 1780.

Zackquill Morgan's very unusual Christian name is spelled many different ways in old records.

Following a summer at the Marine Biology School in Annisquam, Massachusetts, Morgan began graduate studies in zoology at the recently founded Johns Hopkins University, the first research-oriented American university.

In 1726, Morgan Morgan, moved from Delaware and founded the first permanent English settlement of record in West Virginia on Mill Creek near the present-day Bunker Hill in Berkeley County.

The Greeley Council was founded in 1916, and in 1924 changed its name to the Weld and Morgan Counties Council.

George Morgan, a German immigrant who founded Georgetown, established a

In 1915, worried about the possibility of a German blockade of rubber imports, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy and J. P. Morgan founded the farm along the Santa Cruz River with hopes of growing guayule: plants that provide rubber.

In 1915, worried about the possibility of a German blockade of rubber imports, Bernard Baruch, Joseph Kennedy and J. P. Morgan founded the farm along the Santa Cruz River with hopes of growing guayule: plants that provide rubber.

Recently, two historic buildings, the Crocker Church and the Bidwell-Wood House ( the oldest remaining structure in the city ), first restored by Veronica Morgan and members of the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation that she founded, became city property.

A historic preservation organization, the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation, was founded by Veronica Morgan to save the buildings and to promote historic preservation throughout the community.

Morgan was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, a Methodist Episcopal seminary, to train young men in the ministry.

When Morgan County was founded in 1823, the settlement was incorporated to become the county seat.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church founded in 1909, in the " Shellmound " area on the eastern edge of Morgan City, is the site of a large memorial marker ( cenotaph ) to blues legend Robert Johnson which was placed by the Mt.

The Sayreville Emergency Squad was founded in 1936 and provides EMS-Rescue Service with its sister Squad, Morgan First Aid.

An all volunteer brass band composed primarily of volunteer firemen was founded by Fred Morgan in 1945.

Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.

Wartburg was founded in the 1840s by George Gerding, a land speculator who bought up large tracts of land in what is now Morgan County with plans to establish a series of German colonies in the Cumberland region.

Investment banks Bear Stearns ( founded in 1923 ) and Lehman Brothers ( over 100 years old ) collapsed ; Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America, which remained in trouble, as did Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

He founded what has been called the philological or symbolical school of mathematicians ; to which Gregory, De Morgan and Boole belonged.

* 1901-U. S. Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan

The company was founded in 1867 as Russell, Morgan & Co., a printing company.

* The Morgan Athletic Club, which will eventually become Arizona Cardinals, is founded in Chicago and is the sport's oldest professional team.

The North Carolina city of Morganton is also named after Morgan, as well as the Kentucky city of Morganfield ( originally Morgan's Field ) which was founded in 1811 on land which was part of a Revolutionary War land grant to Daniel Morgan.