Foster C. Morgan has for the past six years been successfully engaged in the drug business at Centerville, being associated with Everett O. Moss in the conduct of the Continental Drug Company. His birth occurred in Decatur county, Iowa, on the 23d of August, 1885, his parents being David and Nellie (Mullinix) Morgan, who are of Welsh and English descent respectively. The father was born in New York in 1860, while the mother's birth occurred in Indiana in 1862. David Morgan came to Iowa with his parents when but a child, the family home being established on a farm in Decatur county. It was there that he wedded Miss Nellie Mullinix, who had been brought to Decatur county when but five years of age. He followed general agricultural pursuits in that county until 1888, then leased his farm and removed to Leon, Decatur county, where he embarked in the hardware business. Subsequently he sold out and removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he still resides, being employed as traveling salesman for the F. P. Light Hardware Company of that city.
Foster C. Morgan completed the high-school course at Leon in 1903 and two years later was graduated from Northwestern University with the degree of Ph. G. In 1906 he came to Centerville and, in partnership with Everett O. Moss, bought out the Continental Drug Company, which he has conducted to the present time with gratifying success, enjoying a liberal and well-merited patronage.
In 1911 Mr. Morgan was joined in wedlock to Miss Marion G. Phillips. Her father was a native of England, while the mother's birth occurred in Canton, Fulton county, Illinois, her maiden name being Eggleston. Mr. Phillips emigrated to the United States as a young man and located in Fulton county, Illinois, where he was married and spent the remainder of his life, acting as editor of a newspaper at Canton. His widow gave her hand in marriage to John Walling, of Illinois, and they still reside at Canton, that state.
In politics Mr. Morgan is a stand pat republican, loyally supporting the men and measures of that party. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church of Centerville, to which his wife also belongs. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and the Elks, acting as secretary of the Centerville lodge of the latter order. He is popular in both business and social circles of his community and has won a creditable measure of prosperity for one of his years.
Source: Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa, Volume II, by L. L. Taylor, published by the S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1913; Pgs. 327-328
