Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Morris, Sheldon A. October 21, 1863 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.41  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        SHELDON ALEXANDER MORRIS, M. D. To the accumulated skill and knowledge 
of his experience Doctor Morris added all that could be acquired by association 
and study in some of the best medical centers of this country and Europe. For a 
quarter of a century he has practiced at Jacksonville, where his attainments 
have earned the rank of leadership in his profession.
	Doctor Morris was born at Belzoni, Washington County, Mississippi, 
October 21, 1863, son of WILLIAM MARSHALL and HELEN (ALEXANDER) MORRIS. His 
father, who was born at North Garden in Albemarle County, Virginia, June 14, 
1830, was at this writing in his ninety-second year. His mother was born at 
Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1837, and died in 1894. Of their three sons and 
three daughters two are alive, Doctor Morris being the fifth child. WILLIAM M. 
MORRIS graduated in both the literary and law schools of the University of 
Virginia, but his active life was devoted to farming and planting. Up to 1857 
he owned a plantation and a number of slaves in Virginia. In that year he took 
his slaves to Mississippi and engaged in cotton growing on a large scale. He 
continued in that business until 1904, when he located at Clearwater, Florida, 
where he bought three orange groves. During the Civil war he joined the 
Confederate troops and served as a captain under General Mosby, who was his 
cousin and personal friend. Captain Morris has lived a long and eventful life, 
and while engaged in practical affairs has also manifested a fine literary 
taste and has written some very good poetry. He graduated from Washington and 
Lee University. He is a democrat and a member of the Presbyterian Church. This 
branch of the Morris family is treated at length in Durrett’s history of the 
Morris family.
	SHELDON ALEXANDER MORRIS as a youth showed much resourcefulness and 
independence, and determined to make his own way in the world. He earned all of 
the money required for his higher education. At the age of fourteen he earned a 
sum of money by cutting cordwood. In 1886 he finished a course at the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville, Mississippi, and from there 
entered Tulane University Medical Department in New Orleans, where he graduated 
in 1888. For nine years Doctor Morris practiced at Belzoni, Mississippi, and 
while there he did much advanced study, attending the Polyclinic Hospital of 
New York City and other clinics in other hospitals. For nearly two years he was 
abroad in Europe, spending most of his time in the Medical School of the 
University of Vienna, Austria. Doctor Morris located for practice at 
Jacksonville in 1898, and has given his attention to general medicine without 
specializing in any particular line. He is a Member of the Duval County, 
Florida State and American Medical Associations. He belongs to Temple Lodge No. 
22, F. and A. M., the University Club and in politics is a democrat.
	In September, 1893, he married MARY M. YOUNG, a native of New Orleans. 
They have one son, KENNETH ALEXANDER, who graduated from Princeton College in 
1918, and is now in his third year (1923) as a medical student in Tulane 
University at New Orleans.


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