Biography of William F. Morlock - Conway Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Cathy Barnes Date: 21 Jun 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Goodspeed Publishers, 1891. page 89 William F. Morlock, an extensive brick manufacturer and contractor of Morrilton, owes his birth-place to the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, in Germany, and was born in the year 1848, being the oldest of three sons born to John and Sabina (Hoehn) Morlock, who were also natives of that kingdom, where they spent all of their lives, Mrs. Morlock dying in 1859 or 1860, and Mr. Morlock in March, 1863; both members of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Morlock was a stone cutter by trade and occupation. The subject of this brief sketch is the only one of the family who ever left the native country. He attended school till fourteen years old, as is the custom in that country, and on leaving school learned the trade of bricklaying and stone-cutting, and at seventeen years of age he left home and friends to seek his fortune in a foreign land. After spending about one year at school at Dunkirk, N. Y., learning the English language, he went to Pittsburg, Pa., where he worked at his trade, and November, 1873, was married to Ludmelia Eokl, who was born in Pittsburg, Pa. Her father, Alonis Eokl, and his wife also are natives of Austria, but for perhaps thirty years have been residents of Pittsburg, where they still reside. Mr. Morlock has two children, Henry, a son of about fifteen years, and Carrie, a few years his junior. In 1878 Mr. Morlock removed to Morrilton, where for some years he has been largely engaged in the manufacture of brick, and during the year 1889 manufactured 560,000. He owns five acres of fine brick clay near Morrilton, and a fine brick residence and two acres in town, on which he has one of the best vineyards in the vicinity. He also gives his attention to the growing of various other kinds of fruit. Since his majority Mr. Morlock has been a member of the Masonic fraternity; now of the Lewisburg Lodge, No. 105. While in Pittsburg his membership was with the Solomon Lodge, No. 231. While there was also a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically, he affiliates with the Democratic party. Mr. and Mrs. Morlock are consistent members of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and are putting forth every effort to educate their children.