... Calvin Cogswell Morgan was born in Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Virginia, December 16, 1801. Attending the Montgomery Bell Academy at Nashville, he received a liberal education, and became noted as a geologist. He spent a few years of his earlier life in Lexington, Kentucky, and was afterwards for a time engaged in the mercantile business at Blountsville, Alabama. Returning to Kentucky, he bought land in Fayette county, and for a number of years was a successful tiller of the soil. His last years, however, were spent in the city of Lexington where his death occurred May 12, 1854. He married Henrietta Hunt, a daughter of John Wesley and Catherine (Grosh) Hunt, and sister of the late Hon. Charlton Hunt, of whom a brief biographical sketch may be found on another page of this volume. She survived him nearly a half century, passing away September 7, 1891.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin C. Morgan reared six children, namely:
- John H., the noted Confederate General ;
- Calvin Cogswell, Jr. ;
- Kittie G., who married her first cousin, Calvin M. McClung, and married second Lieutenant General A.P. Hill, who won fame as an officer in the Confederate Army ;
- Richard C., the special subject of this brief personal record ;
- Charlton H. ; and
- Henrietta, who became the wife of General Basil Duke. ...
