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George W. Morris (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and justice of the peace)

b. 1823-01-27 d. 1907-01-02

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and justice of the peace. Native of Gloucester, England. Son of John Morris and Elizabeth Morris. Married to Caroline A. Wallace Morris in July 1848. Father of William B. Morris, Carrie Bell Morris, Louisa W. Morris, George W. Morris, Jr., John S. Morris, and William Morris. Merchant in Troy, New York, in 1838. Clerk in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1846. Bookkeeper employed by Emery, Low, & Co. in Louisville from 1846 to 1848. Merchant employed by Fonda, Moore, & Co. wholesale grocery in Louisville from 1848 to 1851. Merchant employed by Fonda & Morris wholesale grocery in Jefferson County from 1851 to 1867. Member and president of the board of trustees of the University of Louisville and public schools of Louisville from 1851 to 1863. President of the board of trade in Louisville from 1860 to 1862. Justice of the peace in Jefferson County in 1861. Member of the common council in Jefferson County in 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Lousiville, p. 264B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 528.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 50A.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 853-54.

"George W. Morris (1823-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial #108753543, accessed July 6, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108753543.

KYR-0001-017-0133.

Citation

Morris, George W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203781 (November 12, 2026).

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