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Subject: [IAHENRY] Henry County Bio-Isaac Morris
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:41:23 EST

>From Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa,Acme Publishing,
Chicago, 1888.

Page 574:

ISAAC MORRIS, deceased, was a pioneer of Henry County of 1834, and was born
in Kentucky, where he grew to manhood, and was married to Margaret Oney. They
were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Mr. Morris
emigrated from Kentucky to Macomb, Ill., in an early day, and from there to what
is now Henry County, Iowa, then a part of Wisconsin Territory. He made a
claim on what is now the old Schote farm, section 24, New London Township, and
his second cabin is still standing. Mr. Morris is said by some to have been the
first white man who located in the county; the date of his settlement is
positively fixed in the spring of 1834. Several of his children were born here,
and after their parents’ death the younger members of the family were reared by
Nicholas Miller, who married the eldest daughter, Mary. Mr. Morris and his
wife both died in New London Township, he in the spring and she in the fall of
1847. William Morris is the only member of the family now living in the
township.

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Pat Ryan White
Camarillo, CA
Class of 1966, Mt. Pleasant HS

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