Edwin D. Morgan

He was born Edwin Denison Morgan III on 16 February 1921, in New York. His parents were Edwin D. Morgan Jr. and Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (1897–1934). Through his mother, his grandparents were Christopher Temple Emmet and Alida Beekman Chanler (1873–1969), the daughter of John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877), U.S. Representative from New York, and Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875), of the prominent Astor family of New York. Through his father, his 2x-great grandfather was Edwin D. Morgan (1811–1883), a Union Army general during the American Civil War, the 21st Governor of New York, a U.S. Senator, and the longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Career Morgan enlisted in the Marine Corps immediately after Pearl Harbor and his 1st Marine Division in Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain and Peleliu in August 1942. Subsequently, he fought in the battles of eastern New Guinea, New Britain and Peleliu, rising to the rank of sergeant. After the war, he briefly worked for the New York Herald Tribune in New York and the Marshall Plan in Europe. He did not attend college, however, he became an authority on the military and political history of the battle of Guadalcanal.

In 1954, while living in Paris, Morgan founded of Overseas Credit, Inc., which financed cars across Europe for U.S. military personnel and Marshall Plan employees. From this, he became a friend and adviser to many American writers and editors who gravitated to the Paris. He was a well-known figure in the expatriate American literary community in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s.

He later founded Holographics, Inc., which developed useful laser technologies.

Personal life In 1949, Morgan married Nancy Marie Whitney (1926-2006), the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899-1992) and Marie Norton Harriman. Together Morgan and Whitney had two children:

Alida Morgan Pamela Morgan Morgan and Whitney divorced in 1959 and she later married Edward Augustus Hurd, Jr. (1918-2001), and later well known water colorist Pierre Lutz (1923-1991) Morgan later married Jacqueline Johnson, which also ended in divorce.

In 2001, he died in New York City of cancer.

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Edwin Denison "Eddie" Morgan III (February 16, 1921 – June 28, 2001) was an American businessman and Pioneer Fund director from 2000 to 2001.

Early life

Morgan was born on February 16, 1921 in New York City. His parents were Edwin D. Morgan Jr. (1890–1954) and Elizabeth Winthrop (née Emmet) Morgan (1897–1934). His younger brother was Temple Emmet Morgan (1922–2008), who became a monk at Saint Benedict Center in Harvard, Massachusetts. After his mother's death in February 1934, his father remarried to Fanny Taylor Baldwin Preston in July 1934.

His maternal grandparents were Christopher Temple Emmet and Alida Beekman (née Chanler) Emmet, the daughter of John Winthrop Chanler, a U.S. Representative from New York, and Margaret Astor (née Ward) Chanler of the prominent Astor family of New York. His paternal grandparents were Edwin Denison Morgan Sr., a noted yachtsman and horseman, and Elizabeth Sarah (née Archer) Morgan. Morgan's 2x-great grandfather was Edwin D. Morgan, who served as the 21st Governor of New York, a U.S. Senator, and was the longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Career

Immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Morgan enlisted in the Marine Corps and his 1st Marine Division participated in the Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain and Peleliu battles in August 1942. Subsequently, he fought in the battles of eastern New Guinea, New Britain and Peleliu, rising to the rank of sergeant.

Post-war career

After the war, he briefly worked for the New York Herald Tribune in New York and the Marshall Plan in Europe. He did not attend college, however, he became an authority on the military and political history of the battle of Guadalcanal.

In 1954, while living in Paris, Morgan founded of Overseas Credit, Inc., which financed cars across Europe for U.S. military personnel and Marshall Plan employees. From this, he became a friend and adviser to many American writers and editors who gravitated to Paris. He was a well-known figure in the expatriate American literary community in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, allowing Peter Matthiessen, Harold Humes, and George Plimpton to run The Paris Review, a literary magazine founded in 1953, at his company office. He was a friend of writers James Jones, James Baldwin, William Styron, Irwin Shaw and William Saroyan.

Morgan later founded Holographics, Inc., which developed useful laser technologies.

Personal life

In 1949, Morgan married Nancy Marie Whitney (1926–2006), the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Marie Norton Harriman (the second wife of New York governor W. Averell Harriman). Her paternal grandparents were Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an artist and the founder of the Whitney Museum in New York City. Before their divorce, Edwin and Nancy were the parents of two children:

Alida Morgan

Pamela Morgan

After their divorce, Nancy married Charles Russell Hurd on August 26, 1957. Within a year, she was divorced from Hurd and married to his older brother, Edward Augustus Hurd Jr., on July 1, 1958. She later married well known water colorist Pierre Lutz. Morgan later married Jacqueline (née Jesseris) Johnson, the former wife of Murdock Porter Johnson Jr., which also ended in divorce.

Morgan died of cancer on June 28, 2001 in New York City.