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Charles Morgan was fortunate to work closely with two creative, yet vastly different machinists of the mid-19th century—J.B. Parker and E.B. Bigelow. Ingalls’ recollection of Clinton’s early days highlights how these two men influenced Morgan and his approach to engineering challenges. “They were builders,” he wrote. “Neither of them would appear at their best unless they were striving to improve on the machinery of today for the benefit of tomorrow.”

Morgan succeeded together with Parker, Bigelow and the town of Clinton. As Ingalls noted, “It was not location, but genius united with executive ability that started Clinton in its orbit with a momentum that has excited the admiration or envy of other communities.”

Trained by industry leaders and his own experiences working with them, Morgan, now 29, was ready to take on his own enterprise. Letters between Charles and his brother Henry in 1859 and 1860 detail their decision to relocate their paper bag business to Philadelphia. Intending to keep the family together, and bring Hiram and Eunice with them, Charles, Hatty and little Harry started packing trunks and crates, preparing for the next phase of their lives together.