{"id":7436,"date":"2013-08-23T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:40","slug":"morgan-arthur-ernest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/morgan-arthur-ernest\/","title":{"rendered":"MORGAN, Arthur Ernest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORGAN, Arthur Ernest<\/strong>, consulting engineer; born Cincinnati, O., June 20, 1878; English-Dutch-Scotch-Welsh-Irish-German-French descent; son of <b>John D.<\/b> and <b>Anna T. (Wiley) MORGAN<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation, civil engineer; paternal grandfather <b>Benjamin MORGAN<\/b>, maternal grandfather <b>Enos WILEY<\/b>; educated University of Colorado; married <b>Urania JONES<\/b> in 1904; member of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for the Advancement of Science, Memphis City Club, Memphis Business Men\u2019s Club; Progressive in politics; engaged in private practice as civil engineer, St. Cloud, Minn., 1902-1907; supervising engineer of U.S. drainage investigations, 1907-1910; planned reclamation project for St. Francis Valley, 1908-1910; acted as chief engineer or consulting engineer for drainage improvements in the South, Feb., 1910, to date; \u00a0president Morgan Engineering Co. (Inc.), Memphis Tenn.; planning reclamation of swamp and overflowed lands; has published numerous articles on drainage and swamp land reclamation; at present chief engineer large drainage projects and consulting engineer U.S. government drainage investigators; member of Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis MORGAN, Arthur Ernest, consulting engineer; born Cincinnati, O., June 20, 1878; English-Dutch-Scotch-Welsh-Irish-German-French descent; son of John D. and Anna T. (Wiley) MORGAN; father\u2019s occupation, civil engineer; paternal grandfather Benjamin MORGAN, maternal grandfather Enos WILEY; educated University of Colorado; married Urania JONES in 1904; member of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,82,4419],"tags":[263,4367,1969],"class_list":{"0":"post-7436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-jones","10":"tag-morgan","11":"tag-wiley","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15686,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/15686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}