John Hamilton Morgan, 84, died February 22, 1982 in Salt Lake City.
Born in Salt Lake City February 7, 1894 to John Morgan and Helen Groesbeck Morgan. Attended public schools in Salt Lake City. Graduated from LDS High School in 1913. Served a two years LDS Mission to German Samoa from 1915 to 1917. Returned to Utah in 1917 and enlisted in the US Army. When the war terminated in 1918, he was attending the Field Artilliery Central Officers Trainting School Camp in Kentucky.
Returned to Utah and enrolled at the University of Utah Law School. Passed the Bar and admitted to practice on September 13, 1924. Elected Judge of the Salt Lake Courts and served until 1929. A member in good standing in the American Bar Association, Utah State Bar Association, and the Salt Lake County Bar Association.
Became interested in oil and gas development in the Big Piney, Wyoming area in the 1930's/ Associated with Clarence Justheim and Arthur Beifer in the development of the Big Piney Gas Field, which became vital to the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. in securing the Federal Power Comission certificate to install a gas transmission line from San Juan Basin, New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest.
President of Morgan Gas & Oil Co. since 1953. Since the 1950's, he was in joint venture projects with his son John H. Morgan Jr, Clarence I. Justheim, Morgan Gas & Oil Co., Utah Resources International Inc., and Justheim Petroleum Co. in acquiring oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leases and oil shale leases and coal resources in Utah.
In recent years before his death, he and joint venture groups acquired some 420,000 acres of leases off the shores of the Great Salt Lake, participate in the Beico Petroleum Corp and Phelps Dodge Co. in a proposed coal-to-gasoline plant in Southern Utah.
Survivors: one son, three daughters, 11 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one sister.
(Deseret News - February 24, 1982)
Born in Salt Lake City February 7, 1894 to John Morgan and Helen Groesbeck Morgan. Attended public schools in Salt Lake City. Graduated from LDS High School in 1913. Served a two years LDS Mission to German Samoa from 1915 to 1917. Returned to Utah in 1917 and enlisted in the US Army. When the war terminated in 1918, he was attending the Field Artilliery Central Officers Trainting School Camp in Kentucky.
Returned to Utah and enrolled at the University of Utah Law School. Passed the Bar and admitted to practice on September 13, 1924. Elected Judge of the Salt Lake Courts and served until 1929. A member in good standing in the American Bar Association, Utah State Bar Association, and the Salt Lake County Bar Association.
Became interested in oil and gas development in the Big Piney, Wyoming area in the 1930's/ Associated with Clarence Justheim and Arthur Beifer in the development of the Big Piney Gas Field, which became vital to the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. in securing the Federal Power Comission certificate to install a gas transmission line from San Juan Basin, New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest.
President of Morgan Gas & Oil Co. since 1953. Since the 1950's, he was in joint venture projects with his son John H. Morgan Jr, Clarence I. Justheim, Morgan Gas & Oil Co., Utah Resources International Inc., and Justheim Petroleum Co. in acquiring oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leases and oil shale leases and coal resources in Utah.
In recent years before his death, he and joint venture groups acquired some 420,000 acres of leases off the shores of the Great Salt Lake, participate in the Beico Petroleum Corp and Phelps Dodge Co. in a proposed coal-to-gasoline plant in Southern Utah.
Survivors: one son, three daughters, 11 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one sister.
(Deseret News - February 24, 1982)
John Hamilton Morgan, 84, died February 22, 1982 in Salt Lake City.
Born in Salt Lake City February 7, 1894 to John Morgan and Helen Groesbeck Morgan. Attended public schools in Salt Lake City. Graduated from LDS High School in 1913. Served a two years LDS Mission to German Samoa from 1915 to 1917. Returned to Utah in 1917 and enlisted in the US Army. When the war terminated in 1918, he was attending the Field Artilliery Central Officers Trainting School Camp in Kentucky.
Returned to Utah and enrolled at the University of Utah Law School. Passed the Bar and admitted to practice on September 13, 1924. Elected Judge of the Salt Lake Courts and served until 1929. A member in good standing in the American Bar Association, Utah State Bar Association, and the Salt Lake County Bar Association.
Became interested in oil and gas development in the Big Piney, Wyoming area in the 1930's/ Associated with Clarence Justheim and Arthur Beifer in the development of the Big Piney Gas Field, which became vital to the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. in securing the Federal Power Comission certificate to install a gas transmission line from San Juan Basin, New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest.
President of Morgan Gas & Oil Co. since 1953. Since the 1950's, he was in joint venture projects with his son John H. Morgan Jr, Clarence I. Justheim, Morgan Gas & Oil Co., Utah Resources International Inc., and Justheim Petroleum Co. in acquiring oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leases and oil shale leases and coal resources in Utah.
In recent years before his death, he and joint venture groups acquired some 420,000 acres of leases off the shores of the Great Salt Lake, participate in the Beico Petroleum Corp and Phelps Dodge Co. in a proposed coal-to-gasoline plant in Southern Utah.
Survivors: one son, three daughters, 11 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one sister.
(Deseret News - February 24, 1982)
Born in Salt Lake City February 7, 1894 to John Morgan and Helen Groesbeck Morgan. Attended public schools in Salt Lake City. Graduated from LDS High School in 1913. Served a two years LDS Mission to German Samoa from 1915 to 1917. Returned to Utah in 1917 and enlisted in the US Army. When the war terminated in 1918, he was attending the Field Artilliery Central Officers Trainting School Camp in Kentucky.
Returned to Utah and enrolled at the University of Utah Law School. Passed the Bar and admitted to practice on September 13, 1924. Elected Judge of the Salt Lake Courts and served until 1929. A member in good standing in the American Bar Association, Utah State Bar Association, and the Salt Lake County Bar Association.
Became interested in oil and gas development in the Big Piney, Wyoming area in the 1930's/ Associated with Clarence Justheim and Arthur Beifer in the development of the Big Piney Gas Field, which became vital to the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. in securing the Federal Power Comission certificate to install a gas transmission line from San Juan Basin, New Mexico to the Pacific Northwest.
President of Morgan Gas & Oil Co. since 1953. Since the 1950's, he was in joint venture projects with his son John H. Morgan Jr, Clarence I. Justheim, Morgan Gas & Oil Co., Utah Resources International Inc., and Justheim Petroleum Co. in acquiring oil, gas, and hydrocarbon leases and oil shale leases and coal resources in Utah.
In recent years before his death, he and joint venture groups acquired some 420,000 acres of leases off the shores of the Great Salt Lake, participate in the Beico Petroleum Corp and Phelps Dodge Co. in a proposed coal-to-gasoline plant in Southern Utah.
Survivors: one son, three daughters, 11 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and one sister.
(Deseret News - February 24, 1982)
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