The William Morgan Affair
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The William Morgan Affair

Masonic Mystery in Upstate New York

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eBook - ePub

The William Morgan Affair

Masonic Mystery in Upstate New York

About this book

Dr. Ann Webster Bunch delves into the enigmatic disappearance of William Morgan, a 19th-century figure whose threat to expose Masonic secrets led to his mysterious vanishing, igniting political turmoil and leaving a case that remains unresolved nearly 200 years later.

William Morgan was last seen in Batavia, New York, in September 1826, down on his luck and haunting the local pubs. An elusive local citizen, he had recently threatened to publish purported Masonic secrets. He was later arrested that same month in Canandaigua for petty theft and eventually transported and held in Fort Niagara. From there Morgan seems to have disappeared forever. The local Freemasons were accused of his demise. State Assemblyman and newspaper editor Thurlow Weed fanned the political flames to great effect. Yet Morgan was to return, this time in stone, atop a monument erected at Old Cemetery, Batavia, in 1882. Enigmatically, no body lies there. Thus, the case of Mr. Morgan technically remains that of a missing person almost two hundred years after his disappearance. Dr. Ann Webster Bunch takes an investigative science approach to this extremely cold case to demystify and highlight ways to resolve the fate of this highly polarizing historical figure.

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Information

Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781540265425
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Murdered or Missing?
  8. 2. Identification Alchemy: Coroners’ Inquests
  9. 3. What Force Denies the Senses?
  10. 4. Confessions to the “Murder” of Morgan
  11. 5. The Pembroke Skeleton
  12. 6. What Became of William Morgan?
  13. 7. Science and Politics: Sorting Out Sense from Sensibility
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. About the Author