[1] Her father was Albert T. Morgan, a Northern abolitionist who moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi after the Civil War and became a state senator.
In 1890 her father left home to become a gold prospector, and until 1898 Morgan earned money singing in a voice quartet with her three sisters.
[1] Her first book of poetry, The Hour Has Struck, was published in 1914, and in 1915 a poem appeared in Collier's Weekly.
She moved frequently in later life, spending time in Philadelphia, in Rydal, Pennsylvania, in Brattleboro, Vermont, at Saugerties[clarification needed] and at Mount Marion, New York, where on January 24, 1957, she died.
[1] In 1942 Morgan received an honorary doctorate from Golden State University,[1] which at that time was in Los Angeles.