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Gable, Morgan Edwards, the editorial manager of the Pittsburg Times and Pittsburg Daily News,
is a son of William H. and the late Sarah Ann (Morgan) Gable. Born April 18, 1862, at Strasburg, Lancaster County, he comes of German origin. His ancestors were intelligent, progressive,
and broad-minded men. His father was one of the most prominent teachers in the public schools of Eastern Pennsylvania for thirty years, and his mother before her marriage was an instructor
in the Linden Hall Seminary at Litisz, Pa. Morgan E. Gable became self-supporting at an unusually early age. When only nine years old he was employed as a slate picker in the anthracite
coal region at Tamaqua. When fourteen years of age he began a four years' apprenticeship on the Tamaqua Courier. His first regular employment in newspaper work was in 1881, when
he became connected with the Shenandoah Herald. Since that time his career in the press has been phenomenal. Only a little more than a year after his employment on the Shenandoah Herald, in August, 1881,
when but nineteen years of age, he became managing editor of the Reading Herald. In this position he gained valuable experience, developing the critical judgment and the quickness
of discrimination necessary to the person who has to select the staff for any newspaper.
On November 8, 1883, while making his record on the Herald, he married Margaret Brunson, daughter of the Hon. M. P. Fowler, of Shenandoah, Pa. His connection with the Reading paper
had lasted nearly six years when he became the telegraph editor of the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette,, and later the city editor. In 1889 he resigned the post and became special
correspondent at Pittsburg for twenty-one of the leading newspapers of the United States. Nearly all the important despatches sent out from Pittsburg that were published in the daily press
of the country, passed through his hands. Considering the commercial importance of Pittsburg, this was a position of great responsibility. In December, 1891, Mr. Gable became city editor of the Pittsburg Times, and on May 1, 1892,
the managing editor. Mr. Gable has also the editorial management of the Daily News, an afternoon paper controlled by the owners of the Pittsburg Times.
Biographical review: containing life sketches of leading citizens of Pittsburg and the vicinity, Pennsylvania. Boston: Biographical Review Pub. Co., 1897, Author: Anonymous.
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