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CORPORAL
ALLEN IRVING MORGAN of Lowell Lane, Westmont NJ, died on a transport
enroute to France from disease on March 22, 1918, at the age of 28. He
was initially buried at Brest, France, then returned to the United
States after the war had ended. A funeral parade, beginning at the
Westmont Fiore House on Center Street, Westmont and continuing on Haddon
Avenue, was organized to honor the return of Allen Irving Morgan.
Allen
Irving Morgan was born in May of 1889 in Pennsylvania, the son of Morris
K. and Sallie C. Griffith Morgan. He was the second of four children,
coming after Bertha, and before brothers Howard and Leslie. The Morgan
family left Pennsylvania and settled in Westmont NJ sometime after 1896.
Morris K. Morgan worked as a stationary engineer. Allen Irving Morgan
enlisted in the United States Army on December 22, 1915 in Philadelphia
PA. He served with Troop G of the 15th Cavalry Regiment. During his time
in the Army he saw duty on the Mexican Border, and he had spent 18
months in the Philippine Islands.
Allen
Irving Morgan was survived by his parents, and siblings. By 1920 the
Morgans had made their home on Emerald Avenue in Westmont (Haddon
Township) NJ. His mother passed in the 1920s. Morris K. Morgan was still
living in Westmont as of April, 1930.
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