Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Morris, Henry O. 1855 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

HENRY O. MORRIS.

    Henry O. Morris, the well known secretary and treasurer of the Proven Fields
Oil Company, residing in Pueblo, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 14th
of October, 1855, a son of Henry J. and Malinda (Bigney) Morris. His uncle,
Major Bigney, was one of the very earliest of the Colorado pioneers and at one
time was editor of the Pueblo Chieftain. Henry J. Morris, father of Henry O.
Morris, was engaged in the blockade service during the Civil war. He died in
France. The family afterward removed to Janesville, Wisconsin, and later sought
a home in the west, settling at Leavenworth, Kansas. In September, 1874, they
came to Colorado, taking up their abode in Pueblo, and thus Henry O. Morris
became a resident of this city when a youth of nineteen years. He had acquired
his education in the graded schools of the various localities in which he had
lived and after the removal to Pueblo he became identified with newspaper
interests as a member of the staff of the Pueblo Chieftain. Later he was engaged
in cavalry service and geological survey work of the government for five years,
after which he returned to Pueblo and for a quarter of a century was engaged in
the real estate and insurance business in this city, dealing largely in ranches.
He was thus active through the period of early development and colonization in
this part of the state. A year ago he became one of the organizers of the Proven
Fields Oil Company, which buys only proven oil lands which it then develops. Its
work has been carried forward most satisfactorily and successfully and one may
always depend upon its property as of productive value.

    Mr. Morris was married on the 23d of December, 1893, to Miss Matta C.
Kinnear, of Baltimore, Maryland, and they are highly esteemed socially in the
city in which they make their home.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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