Calvin Gogswell Morgan, Sr.

Merchant.
1807 Calvin got a merchant licence. At one time the firm name was Morgan and Jacobs, then C Morgan and Son. He became a prosperous merchant and owned a large track of land north of Clinch Street.
He was a trustee of the Knoxville Female Academy.
He was on a committee to superintend subscriptions to the Bank of Tennessee at Knoxville and 1812 became one of the directors of the bank.
1816 he was appointed one of 3 tax assessors for Knoxville.
1821/22 was appointed trustee of East Tennessee College.

1822 he was captain of the fire company.
He erected the first cotton-gin in Knoxville after his merchant business was dissolved.
He donated the 2 acres of land that the main building of the Tennessee School for the Deaf was built on (it later became the City Hall)

Father of

Elizabeth Jane Morgan
1802–1870 • 9WV7-HWH​​

Franklin Henry Morgan
1803–1852 • 24M3-FPQ​​

Rufus Montezuma Morgan
1807–1860 • LHGB-QP2​​

Amanda Maria Morgan
1810–1900 • L7PH-16B​​

Ellen Patience Morgan
1812–1889 • LC3W-335​​

John Fackler Morgan
1814–1872 • LHGB-WS3​​

Alfred B Morgan
1816–1865 • L2M5-PJH​​

Alexander McDermott Morgan
1817–1874 • 943X-25F​​

Sara Ann Morgan
1820–1820 • LHGB-W44​​

Calvin Morgan
1822–Deceased • LHGB-W6M​​

Rufus Montezuma Morgan
1823–1862 • K8JV-GY4​​

Catherine Matilda Morgan
1824–1838 • LHGB-WKK

sources
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHNJ-S77
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LHNJ-S77
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34345896/calvin-morgan