- Also known as John "Jack" Morgan, he opened the Cock 'n Bull restaurant and pub on the Sunset Strip in 1937. It was there, in 1941 or '42, that he co-created the Moscow Mule. The famous Mule lives on even in the 21st century, but the restaurant closed in 1987.
- Morgan opened the doors to the Cock 'n Bull (on the Sunset Strip) on Wednesday, 21 April 1937, at 4:00 p.m. Two minutes later, Eric Blore walked in and became the first paying customer at the bar.
- Wife Phyllis Cleveland was the granddaughter of US President Grover Cleveland.
- While attending Princeton in 1917, he learned to fly in the Princeton Flying Club. He joined the Army Air Service and flew in WWI.
- Morgan was one of Farrow's groom's men when John Farrow married Maureen O'Sullivan at St. Monica's Church in 1936. Also a member of Farrow's party was Alan Mowbray. Morgan's daughter, Joan, was the flower girl and son, John, was the ring bearer.
- Morgan wrote the novel upon which the film, Man of Two Worlds (1934) is based. The novel, first published in 1933, was entitled Man of Two Worlds: The Novel of a Stanger. It was dedicated to "F.A.M. and P.C.M. in appreciation of their unselfish encouragement" (Fanny Ainsworth Morgan, his mother, and Phyllis Cleveland Morgan, his wife) . A copy was given to this writer by Morgan's daughter.
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