Person:Philip Morgan (8)

New Orleans, Orleans Parish, 1860 census:^[4]

Morgan, Philip H. 34 yrs Judge 2nd Dist. Court (personal estate = $1,000) b. Louisiana

      Beatrice 30 yrs b. Maryland

      Charlotte 7 yrs b. Louisiana

      Ellen 6 yrs b. Louisiana

      Lavinia 3 yrs b. Louisiana

      Hickey 2 yrs b. Louisiana

      Henry 6/12 yr b. Louisiana

Connerty, Catherine 35 yrs Domestic b. Ireland

Sheahey, Johanna 32 yrs Domestic b. Ireland

New Orleans, Orleans Parish, 1870 census:^[5]

Morgan, Hickey 50 yrs Lawyer (real estate = $20,000; personal estate = $300) b. Louisiana

      Hettie 40 yrs At Home b. Louisiana

      Hickey 16 yrs At School b. Louisiana

      Harry 15 yrs At School b. Louisiana

      Elizabeth 14 yrs At School b. Louisiana

      Bale [Belle] 13 yrs At School b. Louisiana

      Pinky [Miriam] 12 yrs At School b. Louisiana

      Charlotte 9 yrs [i.e., 19 yrs] At School b. Louisiana

      Lavinia 8 yrs [i.e., 18 yrs] At School b. Louisiana

      Nellie 6 yrs [i.e., 16 yrs] b. Louisiana

Brown, Belle 26 yrs Domestic Servant b. Louisiana

New York, New York, 1900 census:^[6]

Morgan, P. H. Head 74 yrs (b. Nov 1825) (marr. 48 yrs) b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana/Pennsylvania) Lawyer

      Beatrice S. Wife 70 yrs (b. Aug 1829) (6 children, 3 living) b. Louisiana (parents, b. Louisiana)

Smith, Martha Servant 22 yrs (b. Jul 1877) (single) b. Germany (parents, b. Germany) Servant

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave.

   Philip Hicky Morgan

2. ↑ Dawson, Sarah Morgan, and Charles East. The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991).
3. ↑ New York, New York, United States. Death Index, 1862-1948.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 143, dwelling/family 880/1223.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 694B, dwelling/family 108/106.
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 New York, New York, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 524, p. 5A, dwelling/family 54/48 (101 West 93rd St).
7.   The Times-Picayune. (New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States)
   p. 12, 12 Aug 1900.

   EX-MINISTER MORGAN DIED IN NEW YORK.
   
   A Great Lawyer and Diplomat, of Distinguished Ancestry,
   He Was the Only One of the Louisiana Family
   Who Did Not Take Up Arms for the South,
   But Remained Neutral in England Until Peace Returned, Then Resuming His Career.
   
   A dispatch received here yesterday announces the death on Aug. 12, 1900, in New York city, where he had resided since his retirement from public life, of Judge Philip Hickey [sic] Morgan, at the age of 75 years.
   
   Judge Morgan's great-grandfather was a colonel in the revolutionary war and a personal friend of Washington. One of his sons, General John Morgan, was the grandfather of the late Philip Hickey Morgan. Judge Morgan was born in Baton Rouge in 1825. He comes of an old and respected Pennsylvania family and traced his descent from Thomas McKean, the first chief justice of that state. He was named after Philip Hickey [sic], of Baton Rouge, one of his father's dearest friends, a generous gentleman, who was one of the first citizens of this state. H. G. Morgan of this city, grandson of Philip Hickey, is a first cousin of Judge Morgan, and Dr. Morris Hickey Morgan, of Harvard University, great-grandson of Philip Hickey, a distinguished scholar and professor of the Latin language, is Judge Morgan's second cousin. The father of Judge Morgan, Thomas Gibbs [sic] Morgan, settled in Louisiana in the early part of the century, and engaged in the practice of law in the city of Baton Rouge. Judge Morgan assisted his father in annotating the civil code in the French and English languages, in an edition of that work which was for a long time much used and valued throughout the state.
   
   Coming to New Orleans to live, Judge Morgan was elected judge of the second district court, and presided over it with marked ability for a term of four years. In 1866 he was appointed United States district attorney by President Johnson, and afterward reappointed by General Grant. He resigned his second appointment.
   
   In 1873 he became one of the justices of the supreme court of Louisiana and remained on the bench until December, 1876. In the following spring Judge Morgan was appointed judge of the international tribunal sitting at Alexandria, in Egypt. In 1880 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the republic of Mexico by President Hayes. He succeeded Col. John W. Foster in that post. The New York Herald, speaking about his appointment at the time, said:
   
   "He is of an old and eminent Louisiana family, was an opponent of secession and a union man, who, after his state joined the Confederacy, went to Europe, where he remained until the restoration of peace. He has the reputation of being one of the ablest lawyers of Louisiana, and is a master particularly of the French and Spanish codes, and after the war he was placed on the supreme bench of the state. He was from the first an adherent and supporter of President Hayes' southern policy, and aided in securing its success in Louisiana. He was selected on account of his extensive and accurate knowledge of various languages and foreign codes to be a member of the international court in Egypt, a body the members of which are named by foreign governments, but paid by the khedive. As minister to Mexico he has the advantage of a thorough knowledge of the Spanish language and literature and familiarity with the Mexican government and people, and it is understood that he was selected for the post of minister to Mexico by Secretary Evarts as specially suited by character, knowledge and ability to carry out the views which the administration is known to entertain of the great importance to the United States and Mexico of closer and enlarged commercial friendly relations between the two countries. Judge Morgan is a man of high character, and by his birth and long residence in Louisiana, well fitted, it is believed, to utilize by his services as minister to Mexico the closer connection of our southwestern states with the Mexican republic.
   
   "Judge Morgan was the youngest of five sons. His four brothers were in the Confederate service. Captain George Mather Morgan, of the First Louisiana Volunteers, died and was buried at Orange courthouse in Virginia, in 1864. Captain Thomas Gibbs [sic] Morgan died at Johnson's Island in the same year, while a prisoner of war."
   
   An editorial printed at the time of his appointment said among other things:
   
   "Judge P H. Morgan is one of the few southern Republicans who joins large ability, high position and a long experience to a character without stain. It was a grievous pain to him that he was not in political accord with his own people. In the south in the stormy year which preceded the overthrow of the Republican administration, the greatest sacrifice that an influential southerner could make to his convictions was to assert his adhesion to the Republican party. It carried with it, in large measure, the loss of what is dear to all of us -- the sympathy and companionship of lifelong friends. It separated such a Republican from the body of the white people as completely as his own reputation separated him from the gang of scalawags and carpet-baggers whom the Democrats opposed. Many in the south thought what Judge Morgan thought. Few had the courage to do what he did. The only compensation was the continued and unshaken confidence of the good people of Louisiana. * * * His nomination as minister to Mexico was made without his knowledge. President Hayes has done a gracious act. Were he always to find men like Judge Morgan to fill the higher public offices there would be no cause to complain because none but Republicans were appointed to office."
   
   Judge Morgan wrote an analysis of the history of the Suez Canal which attracted world wide attention, because it foretold the collapse which eventually did come. It brought forth a bitter reply from Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, but that did not stem the tide of public sentiment against the enterprise, aroused by Judge Morgan's able and exhaustive treatise.
   
   There is an incident worthy of note in the history of the Morgan family. Colonel Thomas Morgan, after the revolutionary war, settled on a vast estate in western Pennsylvania, which he called Morganza. Here he was visited by Aaron Burr, with whom he had been on terms of intimacy, and who hoped to enlist Colonel Morgan's two sons in his wild scheme of empire. He had reckoned without his host, however, and the latter became so indignant that Burr did not disclose his plans until, one day at dinner, while flushed with wine, he exclaimed: "With five hundred men, New York could be taken, and with two hundred Congress could be driven into the river."
   
   There was instant confusion at the table, and one of the sons (afterwards general), John Morgan, arose and said: "By God, sir, with that force you cannot take our little town of Cannonsburg," to which Burr replied: "Confine yourself to this side of the mountains, if you please, and I'll not contradict you." He left the table, and the next morning left the house.
   
   Colonel Morgan gathered enough of Burr's schemes to lay the matter before President Jefferson, who asked him to act the part of a good citizen and trace further the footsteps of this enterprise. When Burr was tried at Richmond Colonel Morgan was one of the witnesses.
   
   While filling his post of minister to Mexico Judge Morgan entertained General and Mrs. U. S. Grant, who were on their famous tour around the world. The banquet which he tendered General Grant was one of the grandest seen in the Mexican capital, and all the distinguished personages in the land of Aztecs were there.
   
   Just before his appointment as minister to Mexico his name had been suggested for appointment as one of the commissioners who were to straighten out the affairs of the khedive of Egypt.
   
   Judge Morgan was married in 1852 to Beatrice Ford, a lady remarkable for beauty and cultivation, a native of Baton Rouge. Seven children were issue of this marriage.
   
   A daughter, Charlotte Morgan, was married to the late John A. Gilmore, a member of the bar of this city, where two grandsons, Philip Morgan Gilmore and Thomas Gilmore, and one granddaughter, Beatrice Morgan Gilmore, reside.
   
   Judge Morgan had the advantage of foreign training in the law schools of Paris. He possessed remarkable conversational powers and was widely read. He was an accomplished linguist and master of a vigorous style. He was an able and successful lawyer, to whom litigation of great importance was intrusted. He had a stately and commanding presence, long familiar to the people of New Orleans, where his qualities of head and heart, his talents, as well as his attainments, made him many devoted friends.
   
   ----
   
   Died of Cancer.
   [Special to the Picayune.]
   
   New York, Aug. 13---Philip Hicky Morgan died from cancer at his home, No. 101 West Ninety-third street, this city, on Sunday evening. The body will be taken to Pittsburgh for burial.
   
   The last few years of his life Mr. Morgan passed in the city. His son, Henry Morgan, is at present United States consul at Aarau, Switzerland.