BIOGRAPHY: Morris H. Westlake; formerly of Orange co., NY
surname: Westlake, Bond, Willis, Beckley, Mackey

submitted by Michelle L. McKenzie 
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Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois, Containing
Fill-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens of the County. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1885

Page 394

     Morris H. Westlake, a farmer on section 12, Mayfield Township, was born
in Orange Co., N.Y., Nov. 8, 1845.  His parents, Benjamin and Eliza (Bond)
Westlake, were also natives of the Empire State.  His father died in Orange
County, and his mother afterwards married Mr. H. Mackey (see sketch), and now
resides in Mayfield Township.

     Morris H. lived in his native county until the fall of 1860, when he came
to De Kalb County, and at the age of 21 he married and settled upon his farm
in Mayfield Township, on section 1, which he carried on for eight years. He
then exchanged this for a farm in Orange Co., N. Y., but did not return there.
Instead, he followed railroading four years in Indiana, and in the spring of
1879 returned to Mayfield Township and settled upon section 12, where he now
resides and owns 166 acres, having 146 acres in cultivation.

     Officially, Mr. Westlake has served as School Director; politically, he
acts with the Republican party; and religiously, he, as well as Mrs. W., is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

     He was married in Sycamore, Dec. 13, 1866, to Emma E., daughter of Norman
and Rosette (Wills) Beckley, natives of Vermont, who came and settled in
Sycamore Township, this county, in 1861; he is a resident of Elkhart, Ind.
Their three children are, Emma E., Edgar H. and Edward E. Mrs. W. was born in
Littleton, Mass., July 26, 1849. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Westlake are,
Lulu M., who was born Nov. 29, 1867, in Mayfield; Norman B., born May 21,
1869, in Mayfield; and Rosette, Nov. 11, 1878, in Elkhart, md. The brothers
and sisters of Mr. Westlake all elder than he are David B., Hannah E., Milton,
Charlotte and John.