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Harry Morgan: Wife
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On arriving in China, Harry was posted initially at the Chartered Bank in Shanghai. In 1912 his wife and daughter returned to Germany via Vladivostock and the Trans-Siberian railway. They were accompanied by a Chinese 'amah'. That same year Nora and Eleanor returned to China, again via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Soon afterwards Harry was stationed in Hankow where their son Frank Man was born in 1914. In the summerthe family would cross the Yellow River and then be carried by 'coolies' in sedan chairs up to into the hills. Pictured below is Nora Man on her way to the hills.
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Morgan has been married twice, first to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985, and then to Barbara Bushman Quine (granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman) from December 17, 1986 to the present. He had four sons with his first wife, Christopher, Charles, Paul and Daniel (who died in 1989). His grandson Spencer Morgan is a columnist at the New York Observer.[2]
Harry Morgan Morgan was married for 45 years to stage actress Eileen Detchon, until her death. His second wife is Barbara Quine, granddaughter of Francis X. Bushman, a silent era movie star who played Messala in the 1925 Ben-Hur. In 1996, in an argument after attending a party, Morgan was arrested for beating Quine, and according to the police report, she had "a red, swollen left foot, a one-quarter-inch cut near her right eye and a bruised right arm." Charges were dropped when he agreed to attend anger management classes.
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In July 1997, spousal abuse charges against Morgan were dropped after he completed a six-month domestic violence counseling program. Morgan was charged with abusing his wife in July 1996 after an argument that left his wife with injuries to her eye, foot and arm.
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