10 | Morgan Services forts to colonize America, and they may have been the most prolific in terms of the progeny produced by any of those early settlers. They had ten children who went on to raise their own respective families. Generations later led to a descendent Amanda Alden who married Kendrick E. Morgan. Amanda’s second cousin was John Alden Spoor who was the General Manager of the Wagner Palace Car Company in St. Louis – the last competitor to Pullman in the railroad sleeping car business. In 1887, Spoor and some friends bought a laundry in St. Louis, Missouri to clean the linens for Wagner Palace; Spoor was the first President. In 1888, Spoor invited Morgan to move to St. Louis with Amanda and run the business. Morgan soon became President. Indicative of the era, Morgan deployed horse and buggy teams to collect and deliver laundry it cleaned for the Wagner Palace sleeping cars. In 1899, the Pullman sleeping car company merged with
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