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Morgan Kenworthy lived in New York in the late 19th Century, and worked as a silversmith. Around 1873, Morgan found an orphan boy who lived by begging on the streets. He took the five-year-old William as his son.
In 1897, William became the leader of a new union of workers. Amanda, who had been in a relationship with William, accompanied William and Morgan to a union meeting. She was given a silver bracelet Morgan had crafted for her as a special gift. Afterward, Morgan spoke of Amanda as a daughter and said she made William's burdens light. At the union meeting, William was shot by the corrupt policeman, Russell Grady, who was working to break the union. Morgan tried to intervene and was also shot and suffered his first death. After Morgan revived, given the chaotic situation, Amanda could not then tell Morgan about his immortality.
Beside himself with rage and grief over the murder of his son, Morgan ran away from her. Amanda saw him only once again, at William's funeral. There, Morgan shot and killed Russell Grady to take revenge for William. Then he had to flee.
Morgan Kenworthy, in 1897, New York.
William's death had shattered Morgan: the death of Grady was not enough, he wanted to destroy Grady's future, just as he had destroyed William's future. So Morgan assassinated the most successful descendants of Grady in each following generation. Every murder, he announced with anonymous threatening letters. In May 1910, he shot the police Captain Russell Grady, Grady's son. In 1932 Morgan shot his son, the newly elected Senator, Thomas Grady, in front of City Hall.
In 1998, Morgan Kenworthy operated under the name "Morgan & Son" and was still a silversmith. He had a shop at 2341 Elm Street West. That year, Morgan tried to kill Denise Grady, another descendant of Russell Grady.
Nick Wolfe, who was working for Bert Myers security agency, commissioned to protect Denise, managed to kill the assassin. As Morgan Kenworthy's body disappeared without a trace, Nick guessed that Morgan was an Immortal. Amanda then decided to try and defuse the situation herself. She went to Morgan's shop, purchased a silver vase and left a message with the shop clerk to forward to Morgan. Later, the two met and greeted each other warmly as old friends.
Amanda tried to reason calmly with him. He refused to listen and in spite of her efforts to protect him, he continued down the murderous path of revenge. Eventually, Amanda realized how fanatical he had become when Morgan again tried to kill Denise. Bert Myers, however, thwarted the attack. Shortly afterwards, Morgan caught Nick Wolfe, who had broken into his shop. He hunted him through into an empty factory hall, where an exchange of gunfire broke a large glass pane. Morgan, wounded, fell to the ground, when a sheet of glass fell and beheaded him. His Quickening was lost.