Kenneth W. Morgan Papers

Kenneth W. Morgan was a Colgate Professor Emeritus of Relgion, Chaplain, Director of the of Chapel House, and Director of the Fund for the Study of World Religions. He graduated from Harvard Divinity school in 1935 and then spent a year living in an ashrams in India, while studying and meeting with scholars. During World War II, Kenneth Morgan was granted consicentious objector status due to his religious convictions and formally became a Quaker after the war. Morgan came to Colgate in 1946 as a Chaplain and began teaching the following year. He spent 25 years at Colgate studying, teaching, and assisting scholars for Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism publish books. Morgan was a proponent of teaching other religions from the perspective of the religion's scholars. He was also instruemental in the establishment of Chapel House and Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions. Kenneth Morgan was born in Great Falls, Montana on October 15, 1908 and died on December 23, 2011 in Winchester, New Hampshire at 103. He married Amy Cowing Scott in 1936.