William Duane Morgan

Biography:

Duane Morgan was a newspaper editor and Democratic politician. He owned papers in the U. S. States of Pennsylvania and later Ohio. He was also Ohio State Auditor 1852-1856. William Duane Morgan was born to a prominent family in Washington County Pennsylvania. In 1837 he and his brother Thomas Jefferson Morgan owned and edited the Washington County Democratic newspaper Our Country. In 1840 he moved to New Lisbon Ohio where he owned the Ohio Patriot.