While in Tucson, he met John H. Norton, who owned the trading post at Fort Grant.

He moved to Fort Grant to take over the books for Norton, and while there, he worked as a justice of the peace and postmaster.

[1][4] In 1895, territorial governor Alexander Oswald Brodie appointed Morgan to the Arizona Board of Equalization.

[7] His wife died in a Los Angeles, California hospital in April 1924, where she had been taken for treatment for an illness several weeks prior.

[8] In August 1926, Morgan took office as the Arizona Register of Public Lands, appointed by President Coolidge.