Stockbroker/Artist
Centurion, 1892–1933
Born 1 July 1849 in Sandusky, Ohio
Died 23 October 1933 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Rosendale Plains Cemetery
, Tillson, New York
Proposed by James Craig Nicoll and Frederick H. Gibbens
Elected 5 March 1892 at age forty-two
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
It was usually at the Club’s monthly meetings, which he never missed, that fellow-Centurions came in touch with the kindly and gentle personality of Alexander Converse Morgan. In his view of men and things, Morgan had clear opinions of his own, but he always looked for the better side of men with whose ideas he did not sympathize and of events which he disliked. His own long life presented the curious anomaly of a citizen who for nearly half a century conducted the affairs of a Stock Exchange commission house, yet in whose mind artistic pursuits were always uppermost; who was himself an amateur landscape painter of merit, and whose canvases were publicly exhibited. It might be said of Morgan, as was often said of Stedman’s two-sided career in literature and commission brokerage, that Wall Street was not really his career but his accidental avocation.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook
