Biography

04/09/1811 - 01/05/1868


Monroe and Northampton Counties (1850), Monroe and Pike Counties (1851)

MORRIS, John D., a Representative from Monroe and Northampton Counties; born, April 9, 1811 in Pennsylvania; clerk; lawyer; clerk to commissioners, Monroe County (1844); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1850 and 1851 terms; appointed, Committee to Investigate the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company (1851); presidential appointee, employed, United States Mint, Philadelphia; presidential appointee, employed, United States Customs House, Philadelphia; died, January 5, 1868 in Line Lexington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hilltown Baptist Churchyard, Chalfont, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 


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