Morgan Flowers(1887-1949)
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Morgan D. Flowers was born in Eagle Lake, Texas, in July 1897. He
attended Texas A&M College, and spent the next few years in Texas and
New Mexico, working on ranches. He married Elizabeth Tweedy at San
Angelo, Texas, on March 18, 1918. He began training polo ponies, and
eventually began selling them. He also played polo, and through the
game, met and became friends with Will Rogers. Rogers invited Flowers
to come to California. According to his obituary, which was reprinted
in his hometown newspaper, the Eagle Lake Headlight, on February 25,
1949, he was a large man, a "natural with horses," and "he did stunt
riding in western movies." He died in Los Angeles, California, in late
1948 or early 1949.
