GENGE, MORGAN EDWIN TAREYTON (1862-1946)

GENGE, MORGAN EDWIN TAREYTON, Presbyterian minister, Chatham and Newcastle, 1938-43; b. Channel, Nfld, 1 Aug 1864; m. 1st, 1885, Elizabeth Ann Hill, of Newfoundland, and 2nd, Mrs Murdock McLeod; d. Charlottetown, P.E.I., 21 Dec 1946.

Morgan E. Genge followed the sea as a youth and was said to have qualified as a captain at age twenty. He later became an ordained minister of the Church of Christ and served that denomination for a number of years in Prince Edward Island. In 1927, at age sixty-two, he was accepted into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He had charges at several places on the Island, as well as at Harcourt, N.B. In 1938 he accepted a call to the Chatham and Newcastle charge, as successor to the Rev. Alexander R. Gibson. He was seventy-nine years old when he resigned and retired in 1943, and eighty-two when he died in Charlottetown in 1946. He was survived by his second wife and two sons of his first marriage. Another son, who was a physician in Beverly Hills, Cal., died in 1938, and three daughters also predeceased him.