MORGAN, LOUIS S. – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

ORGAN,
LOUIS S., M. D., of Conewango, N. Y., was born March 20th, 1801, at
West Springfield, Mass. He is the son of Erastus Morgan, a soldier of
the revolutionary war, who afterwards removed to Norwich, and in this
romantic and mountainous region Dr. Morgan was brought up a farmer. His
early education was primarily at the common school, supplemented by
lessons in Latin from his pastor. After two years of unremitting toil in
study, teaching and farming, his health gave way ; then he had
recourse to a more active life, during which he became interested in
local botany and geology, and in the succeeding year entered Westfield
Academy, where he acquired a knowledge of the classics, and also the
French language. In 1823, he entered the office of Dr. Ebenezer Emmons,
a distinguished naturalist, etc., for a year, meanwhile attending
lectures in the Berkshire Medical College. He afterwards studied with
Dr. Bela B. Jones, of Southampton, and Dr. William Atwater, of
Westfield.

     In 1826, he married
Cornelia Spelman, his wedding tour of fifteen hundred miles being
occupied in the delivery of lectures on the natural sciences in the
States of New York and Pennsylvania. Returning to Massachusetts, he
published the Cabinet of Nature, a monthly journal, at Northampton,
attending also medical lectures at Williams College, whence he graduated
in 1828. The next year he became Professor of Natural Science in Monroe
High School, near Rochester, N. Y., and shortly after Associate
Principal and Classical Teacher of Gaines High School, Orleans county,
N. Y., where he passed five years. Impaired health caused him to
relinquish this position, and for four years after he was engaged in
delivering lectures before the various literary societies in western New
York on geology. A laryngeal affection was now developed, and his
physicians advised him that, as his right lung was seriously affected,
he was in danger of dying from consumption. In the spring of 1839, by
rational treatment, and avoiding the medication of his advisers, he
recovered his health, entered the ministry, and was ordained as an
Evangelist, laboring for a time in western Pennsylvania. Thence he
returned to western New York, and labored as a home missionary and
physician to the poor.

     In 1845, his attention
was directed to homœopathy, and after a full investigation, he decided
to adopt its principles. Called to be pastor of the church in Conewango,
he also practiced medicine there for six years the only homœopath in
the county. Thence he removed to Gowanda, where he had to combat the
opposition of three allopaths and three eclectics ; besides these,
his cares were increased by assuming the part of editor of the

Chronicle,
published by his son. Six years were likewise passed here, when, in a
night, the fruits of many years were swept away in a conflagration which
consumed the town. After a year passed in repairing losses, he sought to
make Buffalo his home, but again misfortune overtook him by the loss of
his wife. Thence he removed to Illinois, and after a year’s pastoral
duty, he returned to New York and opened an office in Howelsville,
Steuben county. Here, notwithstanding the opposition of the old school
and further losses by fire, he enjoyed a very successful practice for
five years, when domestic afflictions terminated his duties. Since that
period he has resided chiefly in Conewango, ministering to all who call
upon him.

     Always a student, he
keeps up with professional progress. In addition to his studies of early
days in the dead languages, he has familiarized himself with French,
German, Italian, Spanish and Scandinavian literature, and has paid
attention to American linguistics, holding an interesting correspondence
with German and French savans on the Iroquois language and other
American Archaics. He still furnishes the press with articles of
scientific interest on the topography and geology of particular
sections, and occasionally delivers eminently valuable lectures on
astronomy, geology, and other topics of a scientific character.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave