Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . e was born in Newburg, nearDundee, Scotland, July 14, 1830. His parents,John and Euphemia (Bonie) IMorris, were also na-tives of the same country, and there passed to theirfinal rest. The education of our subject was received inScotland, and he emigrated to the United States in1849, settling in Rochester, N. Y. He afterwardsremoved to Fowlerville, twenty-tw
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . e was born in Newburg, nearDundee, Scotland, July 14, 1830. His parents,John and Euphemia (Bonie) IMorris, were also na-tives of the same country, and there passed to theirfinal rest. The education of our subject was received inScotland, and he emigrated to the United States in1849, settling in Rochester, N. Y. He afterwardsremoved to Fowlerville, twenty-two miles fromRochester, where he worked at his trade of a ma-chinist until 1854, when he came to Illinois, mak-ing a location in Ottawa. He opened a machineshop in Henr3, 111., which he carried on for twoyears, and then went toFreeport, where he was em-ployed in the reaper works of J. P. Manney. In1858, he came to Ford County, and settled on afarm in Wall Township, where he remained forseveral years. On the 1st of September, 1854, in Fowlerville,N. Y., a marriage ceremony was performed whichunited the destinies of Mr. INIorris and Miss MaryMartin, a daughter of James Martin. ISlrs. Morriswas born in Scotland, and came to America when. sm^
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