a list of people to chose from and we had the same name so I thought I should pick him
to learn about. Garrett Morgan was born in Paris on March 4, 1877 and died on July
27,1963 at the age of 86. Growing up, most of his teenage years were spent as a
working man for a Cincinnati landowner. He also had to quit school in order to work
full-time for his job. In 1895, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began repairing
sewing machines for a clothing manufacture.
Garrett Morgan was the seventh of eleven children born to Sydney Morgan, a former
slave who was freed in 1863. Leaving home at age 14 with only a elementary
education, was when morgan