Thomas J. Morgan

(1839-1902) lived at Brownville and Peru, Nemaha County. Military officer, educator, administrator, was U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1889 to 1893 where he outlined policies to promote the welfare, citizenship, and education of Native Americans, then was corresponding secretary of American Baptist Home Mission Society for nine years where he helped establish schools for thousands of African Americans; previously achieved rank of brigadier general during Civil War, and served after 1872 as educational leader at colleges in four different states. Consult New York Times obituary, July 14, 1902, p. 7 and Dictionary of American Biography, Vol 13 (1934) 187-188 and Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol 2 (Greenwood Press, 1978) 917-918.

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