Editing Garrett Morgan (section)

==Early life and education==
Morgan was born in 1877 in [[Paris, Kentucky]],<ref name="Ohiolink">{{cite web|url=http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2129.xml;chunk.id=bioghist_1;brand=default|title=Biography of Garrett A. Morgan|website=OhioLink.edu|access-date=May 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527205400/http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2129.xml;chunk.id=bioghist_1;brand=default|archive-date=May 27, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="UKy">{{cite web |title=Morgan, Garrett A., Sr. |url=https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/653 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210202805/https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/653 |archive-date=2018-12-10 |access-date=May 27, 2015 |website=Notable Kentucky African Americans Database |publisher=University of Kentucky}}</ref> an almost exclusively African American community. His father was Sydney Morgan, a son and freed slave of [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] General [[John Hunt Morgan|John H. Morgan]] of [[Morgan's Raiders]].<ref name="Ohiolink" /> His mother, also a freed slave, was Elizabeth Reed, daughter of Rev. Garrett Reed;<ref name="ClevelandHistory">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=MGA|title=Morgan, Garrett A. |date=February 23, 2005|encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland|publisher=A joint effort by Case Western University and the Western Reserve Historical Society|access-date=February 11, 2013}}</ref> she was part [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]].<ref name="PBS" /> Garrett Morgan was the seventh of eleven children. Morgan received a sixth grade education at Branch Elementary School in Claysville, Kentucky. At age 14, he moved in search of work to [[Cincinnati, Ohio]].<ref name="Ohiolink" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/653|title=Morgan, Garrett A., Sr. · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|website=nkaa.uky.edu|access-date=December 10, 2018}}</ref>