Barter OXFORD [Parents] 1 was born 2 on Sep 20 1656 in Ashmore, Dorset, England. He married Dorothy.
Dorothy 1 married Barter OXFORD.
They had the following children:
M i Nicholas OXFORD
Stephen OXFORD [Parents] 1 married Dorothy.
NAMES:
1. Per message by Roslyn Bradord on Ancestry.com message forum for location Dorset-General dated July 18 1998: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.britisles.england.dor.general.
"Information sought on the FEMALE lines of my Oxford family. Earliest Stephen Oxford married Dorothy ? Nine children of the marriage all born Ashmore Dorset. Son Barter born 20.9.1656 at Ashmore Dorset. Barter also married a Dorothy? Barter's son Nicholas born 27.6.1691 Ashmore Dorset married Christian Mehell or Michel. Their son Robert born 30.8.1724 in Ashmore, married Mary Chown. Their son also aRobert born 1760 married Mary Newhook in 1785 in Tarrant Gunville. Their daughter Sussanah born 3.12.1788 in Ashmore Dorset. married James Ingram who came from Donhead St Mary's Wilt."
Dorothy 1 married Stephen OXFORD.
They had the following children:
M i Barter OXFORD
He had the following children:
M i Stephen OXFORD
They had the following children:
F i Roxann MERCER
Jacob MORGAN [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on Aug 01 1879 in Bryants Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. He died 6 in 1971. Jacob married 7 Floral Susannah OSBOURNE on Jan 03 1907.
NOTES:
1. From "Blaketown: 1897 - 1997 Newfoundland's First Farming Town" (Section on Church of England School):
"From 1891 to 1906 teachers served in Whitbourne and Blaketown in alternate periods of six months.... In 1906 Mr. William Chafe was teaching in Blaketown. The next teacher to come to Blaketown was Jacob Morgan from Bryants Cove. Mr. Morgan taught school here from 1907 to 1914."
Floral Susannah OSBOURNE [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4 on Jun 12 1890 and was christened 5 in St. Barnabas' Church of England, Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. She died 6 in 1977. Floral married 7 Jacob MORGAN on Jan 03 1907.
NOTES:
1. From "Blaketown: 1897 - 1997 Newfoundland's First Farming Town" (Section about Church of England):
"Mr. Moses O. Morgan... told of his long association with Blaketown. His mother, Mrs. Floral
Morgan (nee Osbourne) was the first baby to be baptized in the Anglican Church and he had also been born in Blaketown and baptized in the same Church. His father had taught school in Blaketown in the early 1900's. "2. On Page 15 of Cyril F. Poole's "Mose Morgan: A Life in Action", we learn:
"... Flora, born June 12, 1890, was the first child to be baptised (Floral, not Flora) in the new St. Barnabas' Church of England."
They had the following children:
F i Julia MORGAN 1 was born 2 on Nov 17 1907. She died 3, 4 about 1962. M ii Rev. James MORGAN M iii Jacob MORGAN F iv Claire MORGAN 1 was born 2 about 1913 in Harbour Deep, White Bay, Newfoundland. She died 3 before 1995. M v Hon. Herbert Blackall MORGAN F vi Maude MORGAN M vii Leonard MORGAN 1 was born 2 in 1916 in Harbour Deep, White Bay, Newfoundland. He died 3 in 1916. M viii Dr. Moses Osbourne MORGAN F ix Margaret MORGAN M x Gerald MORGAN
Jacob MORGAN [Parents] 1 was born 2 in Port de Grave, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. He married Frances MORGAN.
Frances MORGAN 1 married Jacob MORGAN.
They had the following children:
M i Jacob MORGAN M ii Ned MORGAN M iii Abraham MORGAN
Dr. Moses Osbourne MORGAN [Parents] "Mose" 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on Aug 28 1917 in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. He died 6, 7 on Apr 24 1995 in St. John's, Newfoundland and was buried 8 on Apr 27 1995 in Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road, St. John's, Newfoundland. Mose married 9, 10 Margaret Grace WEYMARK BHSc on Jul 06 1968 in St. Timothy's Anglican Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Other marriages:FITZPATRICK, Margaret
DEATH:
1. From 'The Telegram':
"MOGAN, Moses Osbourne - Companion of the Order of Canada, Brigadier General, President Emeritus of the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Passed away peacefully at his home on April 24, 1995, in his 77th year. Predeceased by two brothers: Rev. James (Carrie) and Jacob (Hettie); two sisters: Julia and Claire (William Smith). Leaving to mourn his loving wife Grace (Weymark), two brothers: Herbert (Bettey) and Gerald (Marg); two sisters: Maude (Short) and Margaret (Wallace MacDonald) and a number of nieces and nephews. Resting at Carnell's Funeral Home, 329 Freshwater Road. Visiting hours Tuesday 7-9p.m., Wednesday 10a.m. to noon, 2-4p.m. and 7-9p.m. Funeral service from the Anglican Cathedral on Thursday, April 27 at 2p.m. Interment at the Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road. No flowers by request, contributions in his memory may be made to the M.O. Morgan Scholarship Fund for first year students at Memorial University."
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Source: Melvin Baker, "Presidents of Memorial University College and Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1925-1999," Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. XCIII, no. 1 (Fall 1999), 2-6:
"Moses Osbourne Morgan (President, 1973-1981) - Born in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, on 28 August 1917, Mose Morgan attended Memorial University College and then Dalhousie University, where he received a bachelor's degree. The Newfoundland Rhodes Scholar for 1938, he delayed graduate study at Oxford University until after the Second World War. From 1940 to 1942 he taught at King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian Army and saw service in Europe as a platoon commander. After the war he completed a master's degree in classics at Dalhousie followed by further graduate studies at Oxford. He joined the faculty of Dalhousie in 1948 and came to Memorial in 1950 to teach political science. Morgan played a prominent role in the development of academic policy at Memorial, and from the late 1950s his influence as dean of arts and science was second only to that of President Gushue. He was president (pro tem) for 1966-67 and president 1973-1981. He died in St. John's on 24 April 1995." (Photo courtesy of Memorial University)
2. From Franklin Eugene Clarke's Family Tree Website (mailto:feclarke@nf.sympatico.ca):
"Gerald Andrews wrote extensively about Port de Grave in his book 'Heritage of A Newfoundland Outport'. The oral history of the MORGAN family in Port de Grave states that George MORGAN, their original ancestor was a bosun on a navel ship who defected to settle in Port de Grave in 1715. He was a former resident of Wales. A direct descendant is Dr. Moses Morgan, who was the third president of Memorial University. His grandfather was Jacob MORGAN who moved there to Bryants Cove, after becoming a ship's captain. Both Moses and his brother Albert became Newfoundland Rhodes Scholars. Herbert became a justice in the Newfoundland Supreme Court of Appeal."
3. From Lark's (aka Lori-Ann Ryan) website:
"Heritage of A Newfoundland Outport: The Story of Port de Grave by Gerald W. Andrews - Page 235 - Port de Grave also has strong family connections with three Memorial University presidents. Dr. Moses Morgan, the third president of the university is a descendant of the old Morgan family of Blow Me Down. His grandfather was Jacob Morgan who moved from there to Bryants Cove, after becoming a ship’s captain for the Munns of Harbour Grace. Both Moses Morgan and his brother Herbert became Newfoundland Rhodes Scholars. Herbert Morgan advanced in the legal profession to become a justice in the Newfoundland Supreme Corut of Appeal."
4. From the website: Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador--Order of Canada Recipients from Newfoundland and Labrador
"Recipient; Morgan, Moses Osborne, C.C., C.D., M.A., LL.D.
City and Prov. or Terr.; St. John's, Newfoundland
Appointment; 06/19/1973
Investiture Date; 10/24/1973
Deceased; 04/24/1995"5. From the online version of "REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND TIMES (27 April 1995) OF M. O. MORGAN" By Dr. Leslie Harris, President emeritus:
"In the annals of Memorial University of Newfoundland, few names will shine with greater luminance than that of Moses Osbourne Morgan. Nor are there any to claim a more intimate or more influential involvement with the growth and development of this institution. When in 1949 the new provincial legislature transformed the Memorial University College into the Memorial University of Newfoundland, the recruitment of suitable faculty for the new institution became a matter of importance. Among those whose names came readily to mind was Moses Morgan, recently returned from Rhodes Scholarship studies that had been deferred in favor of war service; and currently on the faculty of Dalhousie University, from which he had earlier graduated and where, immediately following the war he had completed a masters degree in classics. Born in Blaketown, his early schooling was at Garnish and Salvage, communities where his father had served as schoolmaster. The significance of this rural upbringing is not to be underestimated, and his subsequent commitment to a community based university with a strong developmental mandate derives, in part, at least, from his identification of himself as a bayman. But influential, too, were his high school years at Bishop Feild College where such English public school virtues as loyalty, courage, stoicism and duty were inculcated. But most important of all, perhaps, was the influence of the Memorial University College where he came under the tutelage and influence of John Lewis Paton, whose commitment to service was a living religion. It was not difficult to persuade Moses Morgan to accept a life of service to his native province through association with the new university. And from the very beginning he became part of a small group who shaped the direction in which the institution would grow. Clearly, the province stood in need of well-trained and well-educated professional people: teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers and others. Clearly the university must accept the implied mandate but without distorting its central commitment to the university ideal. Just as clearly the university should accept a significant role in respect of the salvage and conservation of the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and in the creation of a legitimate pride in a distinctive Newfoundland identity. As head of the Department of Social Studies, assistant dean of arts and science, then dean of arts and science in the 1950s, and as president (pro tem., 1966-67), vice-president (academic) and pro vice-chancellor (1967-73), president and vice-chancellor from 1973-81, he worked assiduously and single-mindedly to take the university in those directions. His favorite technique was to identify the right person for a particular role and then, following the military strategy of reinforcing success, offer to such a person unstinting loyalty and such financial, administrative and moral support as the resources of the university could command or as governments or private corporations could be cajoled or browbeaten into providing. Areas of particular interest were those that combined the greatest potential for community development with the best opportunities for high class scholarship. For to counteract a national tendency to believe that no good thing could come out of Nazareth and to establish a solid reputation for Memorial's programs were also elements of the overall strategy. In due course, those objectives were attained; not only in respect of specific areas like earth sciences or folklore, where peculiar environmental circumstances offered special advantages to investigators, but across the broad spectrum of academic disciplines. Today, we may look to the Ocean Sciences Centre at Logy Bay, to the archaeological unit's excavations at Ferryland, to the National Research Council's Institute of Marine Dynamics, to the solid reputation of C-CORE [the Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering], to the publications of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, to the archives of the maritime history group, to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and to numerous other examples of imaginative strategy successfully implemented. And the stress upon excellence, and upon an orientation that derived whatever benefit might possibly be gained from unique local circumstances, redounded as well to the development of professional programs in health sciences, engineering, education and business, whose graduates had no need to fear comparison with any of their peers from other universities or political jurisdictions. But while conscious of those demands for national and international recognition, Moses Morgan also remained very much alive to the very special needs of the Newfoundland community and, in particular, of the many hundreds of students who were emerging from centuries of isolation and from culturally deprived backgrounds. Believing strongly that those students must be given the opportunities to overcome the environmental disabilities from which they suffered, he set about to create a mechanism that might redress some of the wrongs that history and geography had conspired to perpetuate. Thus arose the Division of Junior Studies at Memorial and, in later years, a number of first-year university programs located at regional centres throughout the province. There can be no doubt that Moses Morgan's first loyalty was to the university. Nor can we doubt his belief that in serving that institution well he was serving the entire province. But his university was no ivory tower. There was, within his composition, a strong pragmatic streak coupled with an unyielding commitment to the idea that the special expertise that could be mobilized and brought to bear by the university was that which would be the leaven to leaven the whole mass and move the Newfoundland community towards appropriate development. The extension service, to which he gave his strongest support, and the Institute of Social and Economic Research, were but two gambits in that overall strategy. Moses Morgan's service to the community was not, of course, confined to the formal programs of the university. He was the organizer and sometime commander of a COTC Unit at Memorial; held a commission as commanding officer of No. 1 Militia group in the rank of brigadier; was active in the field of industrial relations including arbitrations, conciliations and industrial commissions of inquiry; was a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Ocean Ranger Disaster; was a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Unemployment Insurance Plan; served with great distinction as a member of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada; was chairman of the board of the Canadian Service Colleges; president of the Association of Atlantic Universities and of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada; member of the board of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro; and senior vice-president and subsequently co-chairman of the J. R. Smallwood Heritage Foundation. For those services and for contributions to numerous other committees and commissions, Moses Morgan was widely honored by his peers. He was made a companion of the Order of Canada in 1973, president emeritus of Memorial University in 1983, St. John's Citizen of the Year in 1967, and was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University, King's College, St. Francis Xavier University, University of New Brunswick, Queen's University, the University of Toronto and Memorial University. But the true measure of his achievements must be taken from the extent to which the public at large gave him their unstinting admiration and respect. Always steadfast in his vision, true to the sterling values he espoused, loyal to his friends, honorable in his dealings with supporters and opponents alike, he carried with him the very image of integrity and incorruptibility. With Goldsmith we might say "a man austere he was, and stern to view," but the austerity merely marked a preference for the simple and unpretentious, while the sternness was a facade. Beneath that facade, as everyone who had occasion to deal directly with him soon discovered, was a humane and kindly soul; a most compassionate spirit; a delightful sense of humor which broke upon one as an element of surprise; and a true vocation to charity. And withal there was strength of character, a conviction of authority, an assurance of probity, that impressed itself unmistakeably upon all with whom he had dealings. This was particularly significant in the case of fund-raising activities; and few there were who could look Moses Morgan straight in the eye and say no. The great success of the national campaign that led to the building of the Queen Elizabeth II Library is indicative of that fact, as is, indeed, the truly remarkable performance of the Smallwood Foundation. His like will not soon come again. But his name will live so long at least as there shall be a Memorial University. And that name shall be held in honor as one of the great builders of the institution to which he committed the greater part of his life. And if we seek an epitaph, perhaps we could not do better than to take George Eliot's paraphrase and elaboration of Cicero's longum illud tempus, quum non ero, magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge man's search to vaster issues. - See also related article under this issue's menu item, News stories."
6. From the Atlantic Association of Historian's website (http://www.umoncton.ca/aah-aha/an_bull0360812.html):
"AAH NEWSLETTER - No. 36 (Summer 1999) - BOOK NEWS FROM BREAKWATER PRESS - A spring 1999 publication from Breakwater Books, St. Johns, adds several hundred pages of valuable primary source material on conditions in Nfld. in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. The book, edited by Malcolm MacLeod of Memorial's History Department, is Crossroads Country: Memories of Pre-confederation Nfld., at the Intersection of American, British & Canadian Connections. Twenty-eight interesting individuals, born between 1906 and 1930, recount their experiences growing up in Newfoundland, culminating in an explanation of how they voted on the confederation issue and why. They are: four clergy or wives of clergy (Arthur Butt, George Earle, Audrey Norman, Ethel Wood); six homemakers (Clare Gillingham, May Horwood, Elizabeth Parsons, Joan McLeod, Dorothy Hall, Jean Matheson); two physicians (the Rusted brothers, Nigel and Ian); ten teachers/academics (Helena Frecker, George Whiteley, Allan Gillingham, Henry Mayo, Gregory Devereaux, Moses Morgan, Harold Loder, Margaret Sanford, David Pitt, Leslie Harris); three writers (Arthur Scammell, Stuart Godfrey, Michael Harrington); two scientists (Kathleen Hanley, Joseph Carroll); and an engineer (Myles Doody). Editor MacLeod contributes a 25-page introduction. The book offers the view - based upon numerous linkages through newspapers, radio, visits, close relatives living abroad and foreign service personnel stationed in the colony - that Newfoundland was not at all isolated in those pre-confederation decades, but was the hub of many intersecting influences, a crossroads country."
7. An online version of "MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY'S ROLE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE FOR NEWFOUNDLAND IN 1960 (c)1993" by Melvin Baker includes extensive information on Morgan's role in creating the MUN Archives, which later became the Provinical Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador.8. Cyril F. Poole wrote a book about M.O. Morgan, titled M.O. Morgan: A Life in Action. This is the Preface:
An extraordinarily large number of people considered Mose Morgan a close friend. Yet none, not even his brothers and sisters, claim to have enjoyed access to his innermost mind or to the wellsprings of his actions.,The challenge, friends warned me at the outset, will be to see behind the stolid Abe Lincoln face. Conversations about Mose almost invariably ended with the question of what made him tick. That question is the focus of this book.
There can be no doubt that, as the Honourable A. M. House, a former colleague of Mose's, put it, Moses Osbourne Morgan was "one of a handful of Newfoundlanders who made a difference of historical importance" in his beloved Province. One of the most influential teachers in the history of Memorial University, he was also, almost from its founding, its guiding hand. Where it had a tendency to trim the shoreline, Mose launched it out into the deep. Beyond the University, his longtime service, for example as labour arbitrator and royal commissioner, also testifies to his contribution to the public good. His singular role in the completion of the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador was but the crowning achievement of his public service. It is eloquent testimony to his distinguished career that he was the recipient of no fewer than eight honorary doctorates and of a Companionship in the Order of Canada.
But Mose's career as such is not the subject of this biography. There is in it no systematic or exhaustive account of his achievements in the University or outside. While the University, the Canadian Officers Training Corps and the Encyclopedia work are discussed at some length, they are backdrops against which to illuminate an elusive mind and character. Although he was possessed of a fine mind, Mose was above all a man of action. His actions far more than his words throw light on his thought and values.
Following Mose's death in April 1995, 1 found myself again reflecting on the hidden mind behind the distinguished career. Clearly, a biography was crying out to be written. But my inclination to write it was undermined by doubt that I could achieve an acceptable degree of objectivity. I had known Mose since 1949, when he taught me Latin at Dalhousie University, worked closely with him when I was at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and for four years as editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador was in almost daily contact with him. Moreover he was a close friend for whom my admiration knew few bounds afid to whom I owed a great personal debt.
When Paul Johnson, Otto Tucker and. my wife Jean, with no little flattery, kept pressing me to write a biography, I was ,obliged to search for justification in support of what in any case had been my growing inclination. With the human mind wonderfully adept in finding reasons for what it is predisposed to believe, I soon found some. Many of the best biographies, I reflected, were written by friends. In Canada in recent years, one has only to mention William Christian's George Grant and David Pitt's two-volume study of E. J. Pratt. Objectivity in friends is, then, not impossible of achievement. But, truth to tell, I am not enamoured of the notion of 'objectivity' in either history or biography. Biography, even Boswells Johnson, seems all to be cast in the mould of autobiography. Conceding the fact, however, that a friend's judgment is generally suspect, I concluded that in writing about Mose I would at least correct and record about a remarkable man from a remarkable family information that would otherwise soon be lost.
In the attempt to gain entry to Mose's mind, I have been greatly helped by his family and by some of his closest observers. But the conclusions are mine alone, the opinions of one person who rates Moses Osbourne Morgan among the greatest Newfoundlanders of the century." [Cyril F. Poole]
Margaret Grace WEYMARK BHSc [Parents] "Grace" 1 was born 2, 3 in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She died 4, 5 on Mar 10 2000 and was buried 6 on Mar 14 2000 in Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road, St. John's, Newfoundland. Grace married 7, 8 Dr. Moses Osbourne MORGAN on Jul 06 1968 in St. Timothy's Anglican Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
DEATH:
1. From the March 13, 2000 issue of 'The Telegram':
"MORGAN, Margaret Grace (BHSc, Toronto) - Passed peacefully away at home on Friday, March 10th, 2000. Wife of the late Moses Osbourne Morgan (who predeceased her in 1995). Born in Shaunavon, Sask., she leaves to mourn her sister Marion Dafoe of Toronto; brother-in-law William Dafoe; brother Jace Weymark of Winnipeg and many other relatives and friends in Newfoundland and across Canada. Resting at Carnell`s Funeral Home, 329 Freshwater Rd. Visiting hours to be announced at a later date. Funeral service on Tuesday, March 14th, 2000 at 11 a.m. from the Anglican Cathedral with interment at the Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road. In her memory donations may be made to the Grace Morgan Nutrition Scholarship Fund, Memorial University, c/o Mr. Kevin Smith, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John`s, NF, A1C 5S7. Special thanks to Dr. Kim Hong."
2. From the March 23, 2000 issue of Memorial University of Newfoundland's 'Gazette':
"Grace Morgan - Grace Morgan, a long-time friend and supporter of Memorial University of Newfoundland, died March 10. She was predeceased by her husband Dr. Moses Morgan, former president of Memorial. Born and educated in Saunavon, Saskatchewan, she married Dr. Morgan in 1968 in Toronto, after which the couple moved to Newfoundland to live. Mrs. Morgan was an energetic volunteer. In Newfoundland, she took an active role in the Women’s Association of Memorial University, particularly in the area of scholarships. She was also a member of the Newfoundland Home Economics Association and the Canadian Federation of University Women, though failing health prevented her from taking an active role in those organizations in recent years."
Dr. Moses Osbourne MORGAN [Parents] "Mose" 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on Aug 28 1917 in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. He died 6, 7 on Apr 24 1995 in St. John's, Newfoundland and was buried 8 on Apr 27 1995 in Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road, St. John's, Newfoundland. Mose married 9 Margaret FITZPATRICK on Aug 31 1945 in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Other marriages:WEYMARK, Margaret Grace BHSc
DEATH:
1. From 'The Telegram':
"MOGAN, Moses Osbourne - Companion of the Order of Canada, Brigadier General, President Emeritus of the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Passed away peacefully at his home on April 24, 1995, in his 77th year. Predeceased by two brothers: Rev. James (Carrie) and Jacob (Hettie); two sisters: Julia and Claire (William Smith). Leaving to mourn his loving wife Grace (Weymark), two brothers: Herbert (Bettey) and Gerald (Marg); two sisters: Maude (Short) and Margaret (Wallace MacDonald) and a number of nieces and nephews. Resting at Carnell's Funeral Home, 329 Freshwater Road. Visiting hours Tuesday 7-9p.m., Wednesday 10a.m. to noon, 2-4p.m. and 7-9p.m. Funeral service from the Anglican Cathedral on Thursday, April 27 at 2p.m. Interment at the Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road. No flowers by request, contributions in his memory may be made to the M.O. Morgan Scholarship Fund for first year students at Memorial University."
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Source: Melvin Baker, "Presidents of Memorial University College and Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1925-1999," Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. XCIII, no. 1 (Fall 1999), 2-6:
"Moses Osbourne Morgan (President, 1973-1981) - Born in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, on 28 August 1917, Mose Morgan attended Memorial University College and then Dalhousie University, where he received a bachelor's degree. The Newfoundland Rhodes Scholar for 1938, he delayed graduate study at Oxford University until after the Second World War. From 1940 to 1942 he taught at King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian Army and saw service in Europe as a platoon commander. After the war he completed a master's degree in classics at Dalhousie followed by further graduate studies at Oxford. He joined the faculty of Dalhousie in 1948 and came to Memorial in 1950 to teach political science. Morgan played a prominent role in the development of academic policy at Memorial, and from the late 1950s his influence as dean of arts and science was second only to that of President Gushue. He was president (pro tem) for 1966-67 and president 1973-1981. He died in St. John's on 24 April 1995." (Photo courtesy of Memorial University)
2. From Franklin Eugene Clarke's Family Tree Website (mailto:feclarke@nf.sympatico.ca):
"Gerald Andrews wrote extensively about Port de Grave in his book 'Heritage of A Newfoundland Outport'. The oral history of the MORGAN family in Port de Grave states that George MORGAN, their original ancestor was a bosun on a navel ship who defected to settle in Port de Grave in 1715. He was a former resident of Wales. A direct descendant is Dr. Moses Morgan, who was the third president of Memorial University. His grandfather was Jacob MORGAN who moved there to Bryants Cove, after becoming a ship's captain. Both Moses and his brother Albert became Newfoundland Rhodes Scholars. Herbert became a justice in the Newfoundland Supreme Court of Appeal."
3. From Lark's (aka Lori-Ann Ryan) website:
"Heritage of A Newfoundland Outport: The Story of Port de Grave by Gerald W. Andrews - Page 235 - Port de Grave also has strong family connections with three Memorial University presidents. Dr. Moses Morgan, the third president of the university is a descendant of the old Morgan family of Blow Me Down. His grandfather was Jacob Morgan who moved from there to Bryants Cove, after becoming a ship’s captain for the Munns of Harbour Grace. Both Moses Morgan and his brother Herbert became Newfoundland Rhodes Scholars. Herbert Morgan advanced in the legal profession to become a justice in the Newfoundland Supreme Corut of Appeal."
4. From the website: Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador--Order of Canada Recipients from Newfoundland and Labrador
"Recipient; Morgan, Moses Osborne, C.C., C.D., M.A., LL.D.
City and Prov. or Terr.; St. John's, Newfoundland
Appointment; 06/19/1973
Investiture Date; 10/24/1973
Deceased; 04/24/1995"5. From the online version of "REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND TIMES (27 April 1995) OF M. O. MORGAN" By Dr. Leslie Harris, President emeritus:
"In the annals of Memorial University of Newfoundland, few names will shine with greater luminance than that of Moses Osbourne Morgan. Nor are there any to claim a more intimate or more influential involvement with the growth and development of this institution. When in 1949 the new provincial legislature transformed the Memorial University College into the Memorial University of Newfoundland, the recruitment of suitable faculty for the new institution became a matter of importance. Among those whose names came readily to mind was Moses Morgan, recently returned from Rhodes Scholarship studies that had been deferred in favor of war service; and currently on the faculty of Dalhousie University, from which he had earlier graduated and where, immediately following the war he had completed a masters degree in classics. Born in Blaketown, his early schooling was at Garnish and Salvage, communities where his father had served as schoolmaster. The significance of this rural upbringing is not to be underestimated, and his subsequent commitment to a community based university with a strong developmental mandate derives, in part, at least, from his identification of himself as a bayman. But influential, too, were his high school years at Bishop Feild College where such English public school virtues as loyalty, courage, stoicism and duty were inculcated. But most important of all, perhaps, was the influence of the Memorial University College where he came under the tutelage and influence of John Lewis Paton, whose commitment to service was a living religion. It was not difficult to persuade Moses Morgan to accept a life of service to his native province through association with the new university. And from the very beginning he became part of a small group who shaped the direction in which the institution would grow. Clearly, the province stood in need of well-trained and well-educated professional people: teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers and others. Clearly the university must accept the implied mandate but without distorting its central commitment to the university ideal. Just as clearly the university should accept a significant role in respect of the salvage and conservation of the cultural heritage of Newfoundland and in the creation of a legitimate pride in a distinctive Newfoundland identity. As head of the Department of Social Studies, assistant dean of arts and science, then dean of arts and science in the 1950s, and as president (pro tem., 1966-67), vice-president (academic) and pro vice-chancellor (1967-73), president and vice-chancellor from 1973-81, he worked assiduously and single-mindedly to take the university in those directions. His favorite technique was to identify the right person for a particular role and then, following the military strategy of reinforcing success, offer to such a person unstinting loyalty and such financial, administrative and moral support as the resources of the university could command or as governments or private corporations could be cajoled or browbeaten into providing. Areas of particular interest were those that combined the greatest potential for community development with the best opportunities for high class scholarship. For to counteract a national tendency to believe that no good thing could come out of Nazareth and to establish a solid reputation for Memorial's programs were also elements of the overall strategy. In due course, those objectives were attained; not only in respect of specific areas like earth sciences or folklore, where peculiar environmental circumstances offered special advantages to investigators, but across the broad spectrum of academic disciplines. Today, we may look to the Ocean Sciences Centre at Logy Bay, to the archaeological unit's excavations at Ferryland, to the National Research Council's Institute of Marine Dynamics, to the solid reputation of C-CORE [the Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering], to the publications of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, to the archives of the maritime history group, to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and to numerous other examples of imaginative strategy successfully implemented. And the stress upon excellence, and upon an orientation that derived whatever benefit might possibly be gained from unique local circumstances, redounded as well to the development of professional programs in health sciences, engineering, education and business, whose graduates had no need to fear comparison with any of their peers from other universities or political jurisdictions. But while conscious of those demands for national and international recognition, Moses Morgan also remained very much alive to the very special needs of the Newfoundland community and, in particular, of the many hundreds of students who were emerging from centuries of isolation and from culturally deprived backgrounds. Believing strongly that those students must be given the opportunities to overcome the environmental disabilities from which they suffered, he set about to create a mechanism that might redress some of the wrongs that history and geography had conspired to perpetuate. Thus arose the Division of Junior Studies at Memorial and, in later years, a number of first-year university programs located at regional centres throughout the province. There can be no doubt that Moses Morgan's first loyalty was to the university. Nor can we doubt his belief that in serving that institution well he was serving the entire province. But his university was no ivory tower. There was, within his composition, a strong pragmatic streak coupled with an unyielding commitment to the idea that the special expertise that could be mobilized and brought to bear by the university was that which would be the leaven to leaven the whole mass and move the Newfoundland community towards appropriate development. The extension service, to which he gave his strongest support, and the Institute of Social and Economic Research, were but two gambits in that overall strategy. Moses Morgan's service to the community was not, of course, confined to the formal programs of the university. He was the organizer and sometime commander of a COTC Unit at Memorial; held a commission as commanding officer of No. 1 Militia group in the rank of brigadier; was active in the field of industrial relations including arbitrations, conciliations and industrial commissions of inquiry; was a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Ocean Ranger Disaster; was a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Unemployment Insurance Plan; served with great distinction as a member of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada; was chairman of the board of the Canadian Service Colleges; president of the Association of Atlantic Universities and of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada; member of the board of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro; and senior vice-president and subsequently co-chairman of the J. R. Smallwood Heritage Foundation. For those services and for contributions to numerous other committees and commissions, Moses Morgan was widely honored by his peers. He was made a companion of the Order of Canada in 1973, president emeritus of Memorial University in 1983, St. John's Citizen of the Year in 1967, and was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University, King's College, St. Francis Xavier University, University of New Brunswick, Queen's University, the University of Toronto and Memorial University. But the true measure of his achievements must be taken from the extent to which the public at large gave him their unstinting admiration and respect. Always steadfast in his vision, true to the sterling values he espoused, loyal to his friends, honorable in his dealings with supporters and opponents alike, he carried with him the very image of integrity and incorruptibility. With Goldsmith we might say "a man austere he was, and stern to view," but the austerity merely marked a preference for the simple and unpretentious, while the sternness was a facade. Beneath that facade, as everyone who had occasion to deal directly with him soon discovered, was a humane and kindly soul; a most compassionate spirit; a delightful sense of humor which broke upon one as an element of surprise; and a true vocation to charity. And withal there was strength of character, a conviction of authority, an assurance of probity, that impressed itself unmistakeably upon all with whom he had dealings. This was particularly significant in the case of fund-raising activities; and few there were who could look Moses Morgan straight in the eye and say no. The great success of the national campaign that led to the building of the Queen Elizabeth II Library is indicative of that fact, as is, indeed, the truly remarkable performance of the Smallwood Foundation. His like will not soon come again. But his name will live so long at least as there shall be a Memorial University. And that name shall be held in honor as one of the great builders of the institution to which he committed the greater part of his life. And if we seek an epitaph, perhaps we could not do better than to take George Eliot's paraphrase and elaboration of Cicero's longum illud tempus, quum non ero, magis me movet, quam hoc exiguum O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge man's search to vaster issues. - See also related article under this issue's menu item, News stories."
6. From the Atlantic Association of Historian's website (http://www.umoncton.ca/aah-aha/an_bull0360812.html):
"AAH NEWSLETTER - No. 36 (Summer 1999) - BOOK NEWS FROM BREAKWATER PRESS - A spring 1999 publication from Breakwater Books, St. Johns, adds several hundred pages of valuable primary source material on conditions in Nfld. in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. The book, edited by Malcolm MacLeod of Memorial's History Department, is Crossroads Country: Memories of Pre-confederation Nfld., at the Intersection of American, British & Canadian Connections. Twenty-eight interesting individuals, born between 1906 and 1930, recount their experiences growing up in Newfoundland, culminating in an explanation of how they voted on the confederation issue and why. They are: four clergy or wives of clergy (Arthur Butt, George Earle, Audrey Norman, Ethel Wood); six homemakers (Clare Gillingham, May Horwood, Elizabeth Parsons, Joan McLeod, Dorothy Hall, Jean Matheson); two physicians (the Rusted brothers, Nigel and Ian); ten teachers/academics (Helena Frecker, George Whiteley, Allan Gillingham, Henry Mayo, Gregory Devereaux, Moses Morgan, Harold Loder, Margaret Sanford, David Pitt, Leslie Harris); three writers (Arthur Scammell, Stuart Godfrey, Michael Harrington); two scientists (Kathleen Hanley, Joseph Carroll); and an engineer (Myles Doody). Editor MacLeod contributes a 25-page introduction. The book offers the view - based upon numerous linkages through newspapers, radio, visits, close relatives living abroad and foreign service personnel stationed in the colony - that Newfoundland was not at all isolated in those pre-confederation decades, but was the hub of many intersecting influences, a crossroads country."
7. An online version of "MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY'S ROLE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE FOR NEWFOUNDLAND IN 1960 (c)1993" by Melvin Baker includes extensive information on Morgan's role in creating the MUN Archives, which later became the Provinical Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador.8. Cyril F. Poole wrote a book about M.O. Morgan, titled M.O. Morgan: A Life in Action. This is the Preface:
An extraordinarily large number of people considered Mose Morgan a close friend. Yet none, not even his brothers and sisters, claim to have enjoyed access to his innermost mind or to the wellsprings of his actions.,The challenge, friends warned me at the outset, will be to see behind the stolid Abe Lincoln face. Conversations about Mose almost invariably ended with the question of what made him tick. That question is the focus of this book.
There can be no doubt that, as the Honourable A. M. House, a former colleague of Mose's, put it, Moses Osbourne Morgan was "one of a handful of Newfoundlanders who made a difference of historical importance" in his beloved Province. One of the most influential teachers in the history of Memorial University, he was also, almost from its founding, its guiding hand. Where it had a tendency to trim the shoreline, Mose launched it out into the deep. Beyond the University, his longtime service, for example as labour arbitrator and royal commissioner, also testifies to his contribution to the public good. His singular role in the completion of the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador was but the crowning achievement of his public service. It is eloquent testimony to his distinguished career that he was the recipient of no fewer than eight honorary doctorates and of a Companionship in the Order of Canada.
But Mose's career as such is not the subject of this biography. There is in it no systematic or exhaustive account of his achievements in the University or outside. While the University, the Canadian Officers Training Corps and the Encyclopedia work are discussed at some length, they are backdrops against which to illuminate an elusive mind and character. Although he was possessed of a fine mind, Mose was above all a man of action. His actions far more than his words throw light on his thought and values.
Following Mose's death in April 1995, 1 found myself again reflecting on the hidden mind behind the distinguished career. Clearly, a biography was crying out to be written. But my inclination to write it was undermined by doubt that I could achieve an acceptable degree of objectivity. I had known Mose since 1949, when he taught me Latin at Dalhousie University, worked closely with him when I was at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and for four years as editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador was in almost daily contact with him. Moreover he was a close friend for whom my admiration knew few bounds afid to whom I owed a great personal debt.
When Paul Johnson, Otto Tucker and. my wife Jean, with no little flattery, kept pressing me to write a biography, I was ,obliged to search for justification in support of what in any case had been my growing inclination. With the human mind wonderfully adept in finding reasons for what it is predisposed to believe, I soon found some. Many of the best biographies, I reflected, were written by friends. In Canada in recent years, one has only to mention William Christian's George Grant and David Pitt's two-volume study of E. J. Pratt. Objectivity in friends is, then, not impossible of achievement. But, truth to tell, I am not enamoured of the notion of 'objectivity' in either history or biography. Biography, even Boswells Johnson, seems all to be cast in the mould of autobiography. Conceding the fact, however, that a friend's judgment is generally suspect, I concluded that in writing about Mose I would at least correct and record about a remarkable man from a remarkable family information that would otherwise soon be lost.
In the attempt to gain entry to Mose's mind, I have been greatly helped by his family and by some of his closest observers. But the conclusions are mine alone, the opinions of one person who rates Moses Osbourne Morgan among the greatest Newfoundlanders of the century." [Cyril F. Poole]
Margaret FITZPATRICK [Parents] 1 was born 2 in Carbonear, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. She died 3 on Mar 18 1967 in (at home) 117 Nagle's Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland and was buried 4 in Belvedere Cemetery, St. John's, Newfoundland. Margaret married 5 Dr. Moses Osbourne MORGAN on Aug 31 1945 in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. Margaret joined religion Roman Catholic 6.
He had the following children:
F i Margaret Grace WEYMARK BHSc F ii Marion WEYMARK M iii Jace WEYMARK
Marion WEYMARK [Parents]