William G. Morgan William G. Morgan William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. He was born in Lockport, New York, US. He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical Education at the YMCA. Influenced by Naismith and basketball, in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less vigorous team sport more suitable for
Peter G. Morgan (politician) the Virginia House of Delegates, for 1869/70, and 1870/71. Morgan was initially prosperous during the post war years, but he lost his savings in a failed bank. Nevertheless, he was able to leave his Petersburg house and lot bought in 1871 to his children. Peter G. Morgan died in 1890 at Lawrenceville, Virginia, in the home of his daughter. She was the wife of the president of Saint Paul’s College, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Peter G. Morgan (politician) Peter G. Morgan (October 21, 1817 – March 15, 1890), born enslaved, after the American Civil War became a nineteenth-century African-American