Jackson County IL Archives News....."Merry Mat" Moralee Is Hustler Here October 16, 1923
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The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL October 16, 1923

    M. M. MORALEE, otherwise known as "Merry Mat".  To be formal one should say
"Matthew Madison."  But how is one to be formal when Mat is around.

    Mr. Moralee was born in Hancock, Mich., several years ago, in Houghton
county, and graduated from Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, O., in 1890.  Then,
just to become serious, he studied law for a year and six months and got enough
of it to help him wonderfully in a business way.

    He next went to the Michigan College of Mines one year and next entered the
wholesale lumber business with his sire and remained thus engaged until his
father's death in 1897.

    Mr. Moralee then became engaged in the railroad contracting business, came
here in connection with his work for the Missouri Pacific and in 1903 married
Miss Mable ASHMAN of Murphysboro.

    The couple made their home in New York City, where Mr. Moralee was estate
superintendent for John W. STERLING, a wealthy Gotham business man.  He also was
superintendent of the Osborne Memorial Home Association, a charitable
institution for aged gentleman.

    He came to Murphysboro in 1917 and bought the Robt. W. WATSON real estate
and insurance business.  The firm name is M. M. MORALEE. real estate and general
insurance, at 1014 Walnut Street.


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