Edwin Wright Morgan, USMA 1837

• First professor of mathematics, mechanics, and engineering at Lehigh University from the fall of 1866 to his death in 1869 [Zitarelli2007, p. 274]. Succeeded by Hiero Benjamin Herr.

Nothing in Lehigh Library catalog by or about him.

Obituaries:

No AR obit.

References:

1. Zitarelli, David E., "Straddling centuries: The struggles of a mathematician and his university to enter the ranks of research mathematics, 1870 - 1950," Historia Mathematica, vol. 34, no. 3, August 2007, pp. 271-288.
2. Virtual American Biography of Morgan.
3. The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (1905) has information about the early history of Lehigh University.

Updated 15 August 2007.