Morgan Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: Ms Coll. 111

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The Morgan Family Collection contains photographs and other items depicting the college lives of Ida Morgan Duggar Herlong and, to a lesser extent, her brother, Lloyd Williamson Morgan. The collection also includes secondary sources on the Morgan Family. The photographs mostly depicting the life of Ida Morgan at the Florida Agricultural College, the University of Florida, and the Florida State College. There are also three photographs of Lloyd Morgan when he attended FAC. Other items include a sterling UF pennant lapel pin, two letters written to Ida Morgan when she was a FAC student, a textbook owned by Lloyd Morgan, and family and biographical material.

Dates

Creation: 1900-1905

Creator

Morgan family. (Family)

Access

University Archives collections are available for research. Portions of the collections may be restricted due to the requirements of applicable state and federal laws, including but not limited to FERPA and HIPAA, and in accordance with best practices as defined by the Society of American Archivists.

Biographical/Historical Note

Ida and Lloyd Morgan were the children of Daniel Lewis Morgan and Ida Riddle Morgan. Lloyd was born in 1880 in Clarke County, Alabama. The Morgans moved to Norwalk, Florida, around 1883 and it was there that Ida was born in 1885. Both Ida and Lloyd attended the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City. Lloyd entered sometime around 1897 and graduated with the class of 1901. Ida Morgan followed her older brother in 1902. She attended college there until the school, renamed the University of Florida in 1903, became an all-male school. Ida and several of her classmates then transferred to the Florida State College at Tallahassee. She left FSC in 1905 without completing her degree.

Both Ida and Lloyd would eventually live in Alabama. Lloyd became a businessman and operated the Morgan Lumber and Manufacturing Company in Selma. He died in 1959. Ida married Llewellyn Ludwig Duggar, M.D. in 1907. Dr. Duggar died in l931, and in 1939 she took a position as housemother for a fraternity at the University of Alabama and, later, at Auburn University. In 1958 she married Sydney Herlong, Sr., and returned to Florida. Herlong had previously been married to Ida's college roommate, Cora Knight. Herlong was also the father of Florida congressman Sydney Herlong, Jr. Ida died in 1970 in Leesburg at the age of 84.

Extent

0.4 Linear feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Photographs and other items depicting the college lives of Ida Morgan Duggar Herlong and, to a lesser extent, her brother, Lloyd Williamson Morgan. The photographs mostly depicting the life of Ida Morgan at the Florida Agricultural College, the University of Florida, and the Florida State College.

Physical Location

University of Florida Smathers Library Building

Acquisition Information

The collection is the gift of Helen Kathryn Duggar Conwell, M. D., and Mary Morgan Duggar Toulmin. The silver pin was donated to the University of Florida Archives by Richard V. Gelder.