Biographical Sketch of Capt. Philip C. Morhiser, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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The captain is the son of J. P. and Mary M. (Fogelson) Morhiser, and
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 11, 1812.  He was educated in his
native city.  In 1836 he went with his parents to Dubuque, Iowa, where
Philip was chief of police for four years.  He afterward became a mem-
ber of the city council and president of the board of town trustees,
and after that received the appointment of city marshal.  In 1861 he
had charge of a force of detectives employed in the custom house for
the government.  In 1863 he was made captain of company G, 8th Iowa
cavalry.  He was wounded in the head at the battle of Noonan, where he
and his company were captured and taken to Macon, Georgia, and then to
Charleston, South Carolina, and there paroled.  He was chief of police 
on patrol under General Thomas at Nashville, and in the fall of 1865
was mustered out at Clinton, Iowa.  In 1866 he was appointed by the 
governor to take charge of a distillery.  During 1867 and 1868 was
again marshal of Dubuque.  In the fall of 1869 he came to Springfield,
Missouri, and sold goods for a year, and has been a member of the city
council from the first ward.  He was married November, 1834, in Balti-
more to Miss Amelia Buch.  They were blest with seven children, six
girls and one boy.  The captain is a Mason and his wife is a member of
the Episcopal Church.  His father came to Baltimore from Prussia in
1809.  He was a soldier in the wars between France and Prussia some
years before he died in 1849, and his wife in 1854.  They had eleven
children, three of whom are now living.  The captain was the fourth
child.

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