Edwin D. Morgan III explained

Edwin D. Morgan III
Birth Date:19 October 1854
Birth Place:Throgs Neck, NY
Death Place:Windsor, Vermont
Resting Place:Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Harvard College
Spouse:
    Children:Elizabeth Sarah
    Edwin Denison Jr.
    Theodore Moran
    Thomas Archer
    Katharine Avery
    Jasper
    (all with 2nd wife Elizabeth)
    Parents:Edwin Denison Morgan II (1834–1879)
    Sarah Elizabeth Archer
    Relations:Edwin D. Morgan (grandfather)

    Edwin Denison Morgan III (October 19, 1854 – June 13, 1933) was an American yachtsman during the turn of the 19th century.

    Early life

    Born in 1854 as Alfred Waterman Morgan, he was grandson of New York governor Edwin D. Morgan, and a distant relative of J.P. Morgan. He graduated from Harvard College in 1877.[1] He changed his name to Edwin Denison Morgan III at the request of his grandfather after the premature death of his father Edwin Denison Morgan II.[2] After college, he became a highly successful businessman, and was the founder of Nassau Light and Power, a shareholder in many significant livestock interests, and president, at the beginning of the 1900s of mining companies the Corralitos Company and Candelaria Mining Co in Mexico.

    Notable Residences

    Beacon Rock

    Summer residence, nicknamed the "Acropolis of Newport" completed around 1890 in Newport, Rhode Island for Morgan, and designed by architect Stanford White of Mckim Mead & White. With deep water at both sides of the peninsula in Bretons Cove, he kept his large yacht Constellation, along with the smaller racing yachts he owned while residing there.

    Wheatly

    Residence in Old Westbury, Long Island, NY, it was built over a 10-year period, and designed by architect firm McKim, Mead & White.[3]

    Yachtsman

    E.D. Morgan was rear commodore 1887–8, vice commodore 1891-2 and commodore 1923-4 of the New York Yacht Club.[4] He was part of the winning team of the America's Cup Yacht Race in 1901 aboard the yacht Columbia. He had a close relationship with yacht designer Nathaniel Herreshoff, who designed many yachts for him. He also commissioned the construction of the largest steel hull schooner of the time, the Constellation, designed by Edward Burgess. Over his lifetime he owned over 17 vessels, ranging from steamers to schooners.

    E.D. Morgan's Yachts[5]
    NameYear BuiltBuilderSpecificationsNotesFate
    Dudley
    • One of his first Sloops[6]
    Amy1880Cunliffe & Dunlop, Port Glasgow, Scotland[7] 187.5 Feet long x 27 feet beam[8]
    • Purchased in 1884[9]
    Whisper72 feet long[10]
    Constellation1889Piepgras Shipyard, City Island, NY136 Feet long Scrapped 1941, Boston
    Catarina1880Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, Scotland[12] 186.4 ft Long x 26.1 ft beam
    • Purchased in 1889 the former British built yacht Sans Peur, renamed Catarina
    • Wrecked and abandoned on Matinnicock Point, Long Island, later salvaged by Daniel W. Sullivan and rebuilt.[13]
    		Foundered in a gale near Ras el Fasori, Syria in 1941
    May1891Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Troon, Scotland[14] 240 feet Long
    Ituna1886A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland[15] 133 feet long
    • Used during Regattas when Morgan vice-commodore of the New York Yacht Club[16]
    • Sold, and eventually became a passenger ship, then fishing trawler where it sank en route from San Francisco to Reedsport Oregon in 1920.[17]
    		Sank 1920, California Coast
    Gloriana1891Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Bristol, Rhode Island Coque/Hull #41146 feet long Broken up at Lawley's in late 1910 after being damaged following a grounding[19]
    Javelin1891Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Bristol, Rhode Island[20] 98 feet long[21] Morgan sold it to the Brazilian Navy, who renamed her Poty, and then was converted to a torpedo boat aboard the cruiser Nictheroy[24]
    Whisper (II)190215 feet long Still Active

    References

    1. Book: of 1877, Harvard College (1780-) Class. Seventh Report: On the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of Graduation. 1917. Plimpton Press. en.
    2. Book: White, Samuel G. . The houses of McKim, Mead & White . 1998 . Thames and Hudson . . 0-500-34169-9 . London . 40340029.
    3. Web site: L . Zach . Some memories from E.D. Morgan III... . 2020-05-24.
    4. Book: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff, the Wizard of Bristol: The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, Together with an Account of Some of the Yachts He Designed. 1996. Sheridan House, Inc.. 978-1-57409-004-8. en.
    5. Book: Munsey's Magazine. 1899. en.
    6. Web site: E. D. MORGAN DIES; FAMED YACHTSMAN i ___ ______; I uuuuuuuuu Member of Successful Croup That Time After Time Sent Lipton Back Without Cup. i OWNER OF MANY VESSELS The Columbia and Gloriana Among ThemuFormer Commodore of New York Yacht Club.. timesmachine.nytimes.com. en. 2020-05-24.
    7. Web site: Screw Steamer AMY built by Cunliffe & Dunlop in 1880 for Ninian B. Stewart, Rockwood.Torquay, Yacht. www.clydeships.co.uk. 2020-05-28.
    8. Book: Outing and the Wheelman. 1885. Wheelman Company. en.
    9. Book: Patten, William. The book of sport. 1901. J. F. Taylor. en.
    10. Book: Shipping (Firm : 1914-), Lloyd's Register of. Register of Yachts. 1890. en.
    11. Web site: Yachts and yachting.. Library of Congress. 2020-05-24.
    12. Web site: Screw Steamer CATARINA built by Robert Steele & Co. in 1880 for James Houldsworth, Coltness, Lanarkshire, Yacht. www.clydeships.co.uk. 2020-05-24.
    13. Book: Seitz, Don Carlos. Joseph Pulitzer, His Life & Letters. 1924. Simon & Schuster. en.
    14. Web site: Screw Steamer MAY built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in 1891 for Ninian B Stewart, Cantyre, Argyllshire, Yacht. www.clydeships.co.uk. 2020-05-28.
    15. Web site: Screw Steamer ITUNA built by A. & J. Inglis Ltd. in 1886 for John G. Mackie, Glasgow., Yacht. www.clydeships.co.uk. 2020-05-28.
    16. Book: Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction. 1892. W. B. Holland. en.
    17. Web site: Ituna, Former Luxury Steam Yacht, Discovered 95 Years after Loss. US Department of Commerce. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. sanctuaries.noaa.gov. EN-US. 2020-05-24.
    18. Web site: HMCo #411s Gloriana. www.herreshoff.info. 2020-05-28.
    19. Web site: Herreshoff Vessel Detail. herreshoffregistry.org. 2020-05-24.
    20. Web site: HMCo #164p Javelin. www.herreshoff.info. 2020-05-28.
    21. Web site: HMCo #164p Javelin . The Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné . 2020-05-26.
    22. Book: Jones, Gregory O.. Herreshoff Sailboats. Voyageur Press. 978-1-61060-403-1. en.
    23. Book: The Illustrated American. 1891. en.
    24. Book: Intelligence, United States Office of Naval. Information from Abroad: General Information Series. 1894. en.
    25. Web site: Herreshoff Vessel Detail. www.herreshoffregistry.org. 2020-05-24.
    26. Web site: The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Sailing Vessel Registry.

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