J. G. Morris (biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

J. G. MORRIS, farmer, P.O. Grenola, was born in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1837, where he was raised until nineteen years of age, when he went to the copper mines of Michigan.  The following year he emigrated to Iowa, locating in Butler County, and lived there and in Franklin County thirteen years and engaged in farming.  In the spring of 1869, he emigrated to Kansas, locating in Johnson County, and in 1870 come to Howard County.  Before the survey was made, located a claim on Spring Creek on Section 26, Township 31, Range 9, and took one of the two first in this part of the town.  He has plenty of running water and fifteen acres of timber, making a fine place for stock raising.  When he settled here he was 100 miles from a railroad point, and had to go a long distance for his supplies.  He has his place well improved---all under fence, forty acres under cultivation and has two acres of orchard, good house and stables.  He is engaged in raising stock, has thirty-two head of cattle, and raises from ten to sixty head of hogs, he has done well, is a pleasant gentleman and neighbor.  In 1860, he was married to Miss E. M. Allen, of Franklin County, Iowa.  They have nine children----W.L., A. S., Jennie, Eva, Emma, Ettie, Lizzie, John and Addie.