History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . coal ever used in the state of Ohio—as a result of which the miners elder Morris owned and operated the Morris Coal Company, serving as its presi-dent and general manager, and as a coal operator often was in conference with JohnJ. Mitchell, at that time president of the miners union. He died in 1891, but as earlyas 1888 disposed of his farming lands, and when he sold his coa
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . coal ever used in the state of Ohio—as a result of which the miners elder Morris owned and operated the Morris Coal Company, serving as its presi-dent and general manager, and as a coal operator often was in conference with JohnJ. Mitchell, at that time president of the miners union. He died in 1891, but as earlyas 1888 disposed of his farming lands, and when he sold his coal-mining interests,they were taken over by the Morgan Syndicate. He was always a stanch Republicanand active in Ohio politics, and counted as his personal friends President Wm. McKin-ley. Governor J. B. Foraker, Mark Hanna and other natives of the Buckeye State who-were also of national repute. James A. Morris came west to California in 1910. and settled at Los Angeles,where he soon established himself so successfully that he now owns two ranches inthe San Fernando Valley, and one in the San Joaquin Valley. One of those in theSan Fernando Valley is the celebrated Toluca Rancho, recently disposed of for.
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