found: The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division, via WWW, May 19, 2015(Angela Morgan Papers, 1901-1957, MssCol 2057; according to her official biography, Angela Morgan, author, poet and journalist, was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Alwyn Morgan and Carol Baldwin Morgan; however, according to a biographical sketch prepared by the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, which has custody of Angela Morgan's earlier papers, she was most likely born circa. 1875 or thereabouts during the time when her family was residing in Yazoo County, Mississippi; her given name at birth was “Nina Lillian” which she later changed to Angela; according to the Bentley sketch her father was Albert Talmon Morgan, a Quaker, and Carolyn Victoria Highgate (1860-1926), the daughter of a mulatto father and a white mother; Angela and her sisters formed a quartet, managed by their brother Albert who also sang baritone, and they earned their livelihood on the stage by giving musical performances as The Morgan Sisters and The Angela Sisters; the group apparently performed until 1898 when the death of one of the sisters and the marriage of the others ended the collaboration; Angela herself was married in 1900 to Peter Sweningson but the marriage lasted only briefly and was legally dissolved in 1906; obliged to support herself, her mother, and occasionally her two sisters, she employed her literary talents in the decade before WWI as a reporter and feature writer in Chicago for the Chicago Daily American, and later in New York and Boston for the New York American and the Boston American; a major break in her career which permitted her to escape from the drudgery of newspaper work and to devote herself entirely to creative writing occurred in 1915 when a prominent preacher whom she had been assigned to interview read her poem “God's Man” from his pulpit in New York; this led to its publication in Collier's Weekly, and to the launching of her career as a free lance poet and author; she was for a time (ca.1918-1920?) under contract with the International Features Syndicate to supply poems for weekly publication, but this arrangement, while it provided her with substantial income ($125 per week), left her spiritually exhausted; in the summer of 1923 Angela and her mother left New York for London where they were to remain for almost three years; on her return to America in the fall of 1926 she settled in Philadelphia; for several years she was resident poet at Ogontz Junior College, Rydal (Penna.); she also served as president of the Philadelphia branch of the League of American Penwomen and chairman of the literary arts committee of the Philadelphia Art Alliance; in 1936 she was elected poet laureate of the National Federation of Women's Clubs; in the late 1930s she spent several years in California and travelling throughout the West and Mid-West giving poetry readings, lectures and recitals; during the last decade or so of her life she resided mainly at Brattleboro, Vermont, at Saugerties and at Mt. Marion, New York where she died on January 24, 1957)
found: Find A Grave, via WWW, May 19, 2015(Angela Morgan; birth name: Nina Lillian Morgan; daughter of Col. Alwyn & Carol (Baldwin) Morgan; born 1874 in Yazoo County, Mississippi; died January 24, 1957 in Mount Marion, Ulster County, New York; if ever Miss Morgan were asked of her childhood, you heard not of Yazoo County, Mississippi, nor Douglas County, Kansas; she would tell you she was born in Washington District of Columbia in 1883; Nina in her early years was a songstress, traveling with her 3 sisters and brother as the Angela Sisters; the group disbanded upon the death of her sister Helen in the late 1890s; this is when Nina became Angela Morgan; she married briefly in 1900, divorcing in 1906; best known for her Poem Battle Cry of the Mothers, published April 28, 1918; in 1936 She was elected poet laureate of the National Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Morgan, a member of the Pasadena Branch of the California Federation of Chaparral Poets, was noted for her work among poetry groups and cultural organizations in Southern California; her work has been identified for more than 40 years as an outstanding foe of war)
