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    J. W. MORRIS

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    J. W. MORRIS, for many years mayor of the city of Troy, Ohio, is a lawyer by profession and is the head of the Enterprise Foundry Company. He comes of an old and prominent family of Troy, where he was born in 1840. J. W. Morris is a son of Charles Morris, who for many years was a distinguished lawyer of Troy. The latter was born in New York City, and was but a child when in 1813 his parents moved with him to Troy. Here he was reared to maturity and educated, and after a careful training began the practice of law here. He met with exceptional success in practice, and also attained considerable prominence in politics. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, which chose John C. Fremont as the first Republican candidate for the presidency.

    J. W. Morris has always been a resident of Troy. He attended the public schools of the city, and afterwards completed a course in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1861. He was soon after admitted to the bar, but during the war was connected with the army, although not as a regularly enlisted soldier. After the close of the Civil War he opened an office for practice in Troy and gained an enviable prestige at the bar. He became very active in politics, and although a Democrat in a Republican county, was frequently honored with public office. Upon ten different occasions he was elected mayor of the city, his administration never failing to meet with public approval. He represented the district in the State Senate four years, and was made postmaster by President Cleveland, filling that office cap ably for nearly five years. He is owner of the Enterprise Foundry Company, manufacturers of gray iron castings, and the foundry is one of the large and important industries of the city.

    Mr. Morris was in 1862 united in marriage with Miss Sully F. Poor of Cincinnati. They had one son, Charles W., who died in New York City in 1905, aged forty-four years. Mr. Morris is a member of the order of Elks, and enjoys great popularity among his fellow citizens.

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