Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . blican, but not a politician. Thoughhe has held many public offices, it was in response to the will of thecommunity where he lived, regardless of politics. Socially, he is the friend of everybody, and held in high esteemthroughout the coimty. He is public-spirited, schools and churchesbeing special objects of his activities, financial and promotes the betterment of the social life of those aroundhim receives his hearty support. Religiously, he is an active, exemplary Christian, and memberof the United Brethren
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . blican, but not a politician. Thoughhe has held many public offices, it was in response to the will of thecommunity where he lived, regardless of politics. Socially, he is the friend of everybody, and held in high esteemthroughout the coimty. He is public-spirited, schools and churchesbeing special objects of his activities, financial and promotes the betterment of the social life of those aroundhim receives his hearty support. Religiously, he is an active, exemplary Christian, and memberof the United Brethren Church. There being no church of thatdenomination near him, he has given aid and support to all others. Now, at the age of eighty-six, he has accumulated sufficient toenable him to have a surcease of watching the rise and fall at thestockyards, the puts and calls of the grain speculators in Chicago,spends his Winters at ease in California, without a thought or carefor the shoes and soles of his old friends and neighbors, which sotormented his adolescent JUDGE T. T. MORRIS JUDGE THOMAS T. MORRIS APIONEEE of Iowa, and a well-known old settler of PolkCounty is Judge Thomas T. Morris. Though a resident ofDes Moines nearly forty-three years, very few people knowtiiat he had a judicial title. I did not ,and I have known him wellever since he came to town, but so say the records. Bom in Ciimberland County, Xew Jersey, October Twenty-ninth, 1822, his ancestry dating back to John Morris, an English-man, who, in 1635, emigrated to America and settled on Manhat-tan Island, at Morris Woods, now Central Park, in ISTew YorkCity. In 1837, when Thomas was alxjut fifteen years old, his parentsmoved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he worked with hisfather, who was a brickmaker. At times, when brickmaking wasdull, and the water high, he became a pilot on coal barges down theOhio River. In 1840, the brickmaking business went out, and hewent to an iron foundry to learu the trade, but soon
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