... CHARLES HILL MORGAN was born at Rochester, N.Y., January 8, 1831. He has been for more than twenty-five years eminent as a mechanical engineer, particularly in the wire-rod drawing and rolling industry, which is indebted to him very largely for its perfection in America to-day. Mr. Morgan's first important improvement was a power reel, operated by the engine driving the mill ; the second, the invention and construction of a continuous train of rolls, having only horizontal axes. The next improvement suggested by Mr. Morgan related to automatic realls, with a vertically moving platform. These reels were completed and a successful test made March 10, 1886, and patent applied for later in the same year. They are now in use. Later Mr. Morgan introduced a system of designing and construction cam curves for looms. Mr. Moran has not only borne a leading part in American mechanical achievements, but has been in many other ways a public benefactor, and the success of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the noblest institutions of the sort in the world, is largely due to his efforts. His constant oversight, his inventive genius and his great business capacity, have been constantly at the service of the school. Its machine shop has been entirely successful, and is now recognized everywhere as a most important and valuable part of the Institution. Its plan has been copied far and near. Mr. Morgan is at present a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, and president of the Morgan Construction Company, of that city.
