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Lawyer; Thomas, Townsend & Morris
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Morris was the third generation of his family at the Allen County bar: his grandfather, Judge John Morris, laid the cornerstone of the Allen County courthouse as the bar's representative man and served as a commissioner of the Indiana Supreme Court, and his father, Samuel L. Morris (born at Auburn in 1851), practiced largely in corporation cases as a member of Barrett, Morris & Hoffman. The younger Morris graduated from Fort Wayne High School in 1904, read law for five years in the offices of Barrett & Morris, and was admitted in 1907. He opened his own office in the Shoaff Building in 1909 and in late 1915 formed Thomas, Townsend & Morris with Albert E. Thomas and Howard L. Townsend. Admitted through the U.S. Supreme Court, he was general attorney for the Midland Engineering Company of Fort Wayne and Fort Wayne attorney for the Sinclair Refining Company, and his law library of more than twelve hundred volumes was counted among the most valuable in the state. He married Helen Margaret Good of Huntington on 10 December 1913.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.