Fourteenth Generation

3376. William George Morgan was born on 23 January 1870 in Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, USA. He appeared in the census in 1880 in Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, USA. He died on 27 December 1942 at the age of 72 in New York, USA. William was buried in Glenwood Cmtry., Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, USA. Find A Grave Memorial# 2537
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Inventor of Volleyball. Born in Lockport, New York, he was a physical education director at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, when he realized that basketball was much too strenuous for the older gentlemen. He set out to invent a game for men as well as women to play with no limit to the number of people on the court at one time. The first game was played on December of 1895 and was called Mintonette. It was a little different from the volleyball we are used to today and each side could hit the ball as many times as they liked before it went over the net. After he did some fine-tuning, the game of volleyball made it's official debut eight months later at what would eventually become Springfield College. The game was accepted as a success and since the object of the game was to volley the ball back and forth, the game was renamed volleyball. Morgan left the YMCA in 1900, to pursue various careers in business, but his game went on to be one of the most popular team sports in the world. He died at age 72 in New York and in 1985, he became the inaugural member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)

Mary King Caldwell was born on 24 June 1869 in West Northfield, Franklin Co., Massachusetts, USA. She died in 1947 at the age of 78 in USA. She was buried in Glenwood Cmtry., Lockport, Niagara Co., New York, USA. Parents:
Rufus King Caldwell (1829 - 1904)
Almeda Harriet Bascom Caldwell (1827 - 1885)
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Find A Grave Memorial# 69522897

William George Morgan and Mary King Caldwell had the following children: