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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: MORRIS, Alfred L.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
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September 21, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 362
ALFRED L. MORRIS, M.D., a member of the Kanawha County Medical Society and a
leading physician and surgeon at Clendenin, W. Va., was born March 30, 1869,
at Blue Creek, Elk District, Kanawha County, and is a son of Jarnes H. and
Mary C. (Johnson) Morris.
James H. Morris was born in Bedford County, Va., and died in March, 1911,
aged seventy-six years. He was nine years old when he accompanied his parents
to Kanawha County, and later in life often told his children of the journey
by wagon and of the primitive log cabin his father built which had, at
'first, no door, and of the danger to which they were subjected at night from
the unwelcome visits from the forest wolves. He grew to manhood there and
followed an agricultural life. He married Mary C. Johnson, who survives, a
daughter of Hiram and Mary (Shelton) Johnson, natives of Virginia. Of their
children, Dr. Morris is the second oldest, the others being: Virginia, who
resides at No. 1519 Virginia Street, Charleston, is the widow of I.C.
Rippetoe; a babe that died in infancy; Bettie, who is the wife of John Smith,
residing in Fayette County; Effie, 'yho is the wife of C. I. Pearson, of St.
Albans; and James Elbert, who carries on the home farm. Stephen Morris, the
grandfather, was a native of Bedford County, Va. He was a farmer and stock
dealer and lived into old age, his death occurring in 1901, when he had
reached his eighty-ninth year.
Alfred L. Morris attended the local schools and for four years afterward was
associated with his brother-in-law in the lumber business and in the meantime
prepared to enter the Kentucky School of Medicine, where he subse-quently
spent four years, graduating in 1902. He practiced medicine for nine years at
Anstead, in Fayette County, W. Va., coming from there to Clendenin in 1910,
where he is now in the enjoyment of a substantial practice and is one of the
valued citizens of the village.
Dr. Morris was married to Miss Rouena C. Koontz, who was born in 1872 and
died in 1910, a datighter of John Koontz. She was a devoted member of the
Episcopal church. Dr. Morris is a member of Clendenin Lodge, No. 126, A. F. &
A. M., and of Sewell Chapter at Sewell, W. Va., and belongs also to the Odd
Fellows at Anstead.
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