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DR. J. B. MORGAN, druggist, was born in Spartansburg, S. C., Sept, 26, 1825. His father, Spencer Morgan, was a native of Virginia, and his mother was born in South Carolina. He remained in his native county until about twenty-four years of age, and was educated quite liberally in the city schools of Spartansburg. He commenced the study of medicine when sixteen years old and two years later entered the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1846. After graduating he returned to his native state and engaged in the practice of his profession in Union county, where he remained about two years, and then went to Greenville, Tenn., and continued at practice several months; returned to South Carolina, and for three years engaged in medical practice and the drug business. After this he came west to Arkansas, and located in Wilsonville, Washington county, where he practiced his profession and embarked in the mercantile business. Three years later he moved to Johnson county, Kan., locating at Shawnee, where he remained for several years, after which he went to California via New York and the Isthmus of Panama. One year later he returned to Texas, overland, where he remained until the close of the war. In 1866 he came to Missouri, locating at Kansas City, where he gained an excellent practice. In the fall of 1868, however, he returned to Johnson county Kan., and engaged in practice and the drug business, which he continued until coming here in 1873, since when he has devoted his entire time to the drug business. Dr. Morgan was married in Greensville, Tenn., to Miss Sarah J. Woods, daughter of Richard M. Woods, at that time United States Marshal for the southern district of Tennessee. Mrs. Morgan is, and has been for years, a consistent member of the M. E. Church (South). The doctor has now two drug stores in the city. He is a man of practical experience in the drug business and is enjoying a liberal trade.