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Garrett Morgan Research Paper
For my research paper I chose Garrett Morgan, I chose this person because we had

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

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