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- BIOGRAPHY: Morgan Llewellyn, secretary and treasurer of the Chattanooga Foundry and Pipe Works, is a native of Lehigh County, Penn., born January 20, 1846, and the son of William and Mary (Morgans) Llewellyn, both natives of Wales. Our subject was reared to manhood in his native State, and received a fair academic education. Early in life he engaged in the iron business, and later engaged in mercantile pursuits for himself at Alliance, Ohio. In 1869 he came to Tennessee, and engaged in the mercantile business at Knoxville, and then engaged in the coal business thirty miles above that city, being superintendent of the mines for eight years. He moved to Washington, D. C., in 1879, and accepted a position as clerk in the postoffice department, where he continued four years. In 1883, he resigned to re-enter the coal business at Oliver Springs, Tenn., owning an interest in the Winters Gap Coal Company of that place at the present time, and is secretary and treasurer of the same. June, 1884, he came to Chattanooga, and accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works, was elected secretary in July, 1885, and treasurer in July, 1886, being also one of its stockholders. In 1868 he wedded Sallie A. Powell of Pennsylvania, and four living children resulted from this union-two sons and two daughters. Mr. Llewellyn is a Republican, a Knight of Honor, a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887
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