Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County by Gresham and Wiley, 1889, p306 Morgan West, one of the successful carriage builders of Fayette county, is a native of Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna. He was born June 8, 1842, and is a son of James West and Louisiana Ball West, the former was born in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna June 5, 1805 and died July 6, 1888. Morgan West's grandfather, Samuel West, lived and died on the farm now owned by Thomas Simpson in the same township. Morgan West was married to Martha H Hubbs, a daughter of W G Hubbs of Bridgeport. To their marriage have been born two children: William J West, born July 19, 1878, and Allen G West, born in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, December 9, 1882. Morgan West, on leaving the common school, attended Dunlap's Creek Academy at Merritstown. Early in life he learned the trade of carriage builder and is at the present time successfully engaged at his trade at Sandy Hollow on the National Pike � mile east of Brownsville. He is a democrat. Where he now resides he owns thirteen acres of land containing valuable deposits of coal and sandstone. He holds at present the collectorship of Brownsville township, the office to which he was elected in the spring of 1889.
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