William G. Morgan Physical Education. Dr. Gulick was so pleased that he asked Morgan to present his sport at the school's new stadium. In preparation for his big debut, Morgan created 2 teams of 5 men, who would help in demonstrating “Mintonette” in front of the conference delegates in the East Gymnasium at Springfield College. On February 9, 1895, William Morgan presented his new sport to the world. When Morgan was explaining the game before the demonstration, he named a few key guidelines in the game of “Mintonette” such as that the game was created so that it could be played in open
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