Bio of WILDER, Lucy Leavenworth (MORRIS), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 236
MRS. JAMES T. MORRIS (Lucy Leavenworth Wilder)
Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris was born in Evanston, Illinois, and is the
daughter of Alden Galusha Wilder and his wife Lucy Jane Sherwood. She was
edu­cated at Rockford, Illinois, and began teaching in Minnesota when sixteen
years old. In 1890 she was married to James T. Morris, who was in the lumber
business in Minneapolis, and she has resided in that city continuously.
She has always been especially interested in the history of Minnesota, and the
book, "Old Rail Fence Corners," was the outcome of this interest. She was a
charter member of the Colonial Chapter of the D. A. R., organized in January,
1893, her national number being 5008. She was also a chapter officer. In 1912
she was the organizing regent of the Old Trails Chapter, which that year placed
a marker on the old "Round Tower" at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to Colonel Henry
Leavenworth and his command who came to Minnesota in 1819. In 1917 she was
elected state regent of the D. A. R., and as such regent was in charge of all
war work of that organization in the state. During the epidemic of Spanish
influenza she daily visited the afflicted boys in the hospitals at the Overland
and Fort Snelling. In 1920 she was elected vice president general of the D. A.
R. and then was appointed national chairman of historic spots. Upon a visit to
Yorktown, she became so interested in preserving that historic site from
absolute annihilation that she started a campaign through the D. A. R. for its
preservation.
In 1922 Mrs. Morris was elected State Regent of the Daughters of American
Colonists. In 1923 she was appointed by Secretary Weeks of the war department, a
member of a commission to decide what part of the Yorktown battle area should be
preserved as a national military park, being the first woman ever appointed on
such a commission.
Mrs. Morris possesses unusual executive ability coupled with untiring industry,
sustained by a discriminating judgment and crowned with an abiding faith in and
love for American institutions. She has secured an enviable fame that will
preserve her name in the annals of Minnesota and of the nation.