On June 26, 1923, he married Catherine Frances Lovering Adams (1902–1988), daughter of Frances Lovering and
Charles Francis Adams III, the
U.S. Secretary of the Navy under
Herbert Hoover, and a descendant of U.S. Presidents
John Adams and
John Quincy Adams. The couple had five sons: •
Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr. (1924–2011), a
Navy Rear Admiral and
maritime lawyer • Charles Francis Morgan (b. 1926), who was a Morgan Stanley executive, who married Sarah Baldwin Lambert in 1960. • Miles Morgan (1928–2024) A Music Composer and director. •
John Adams Morgan (1930–2025), married to Connie H.Adams Morgan in 2010 until his death in 2025. They share a daughter Caroline E. philipson and his stepdaughter Christina Philipson. https://everloved.com/life-of/john-adams-morgan/obituary/ A short past marriage including to
Sonja Tremont (b. 1963) • Peter Angus Morgan (1938–2013). He died on February 8, 1982, in Manhattan, New York City at
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Activities and interests Morgan was trustee, president and chairman of
The Morgan Library & Museum, served on the boards of
J.P. Morgan & Co.,
General Electric and
Pullman Company, served as trustee of the Groton School and
Museum of Modern Art and member of the
Harvard Board of Overseers. During
World War II, Morgan was commissioned as a Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Reserve and served as both an
OSS Agent and Japanese translator. Like his father, brother and grandfather, he was the
Commodore of
New York Yacht Club where he served as chairman of its
America's Cup Committee. He was also vice president of the
International Yacht Racing Union. He was a member of the
Bohemian Club, the
Council on Foreign Relations,
Community Service Society of New York, the
Pilgrims Society and the
Roxburghe Club. Morgan was posthumously inducted into the
America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2001. == References ==