BIO:  Morris S. WICKERSHAM, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 481

MORRIS S. WICKERSHAM, Bendersville, was born in Newberry Township, York County, 
Penn., March 19, 1854, and is a son of Joseph and Hannah C. (Squibb) Wickersham.  
He was reared to farming until the age of sixteen, at which time he became a 
student at the Millersville State Normal School, to qualify himself for the 
profession of teaching.  In 1872, he taught a school one session in Fairview 
Township, York County, and in 1873, came to Bendersville, where he was appointed 
and served two years as principal of the high school at that place.  In 1875 he 
resigned his position and, in company with J. A. Mickley, under the firm name of 
M. S. Wickersham & Co., bought out the confectionary store of his brother John 
Wickersham.  In the winter of 1876 Mr. Wickersham bought Mr. Mickley’s interest, 
and in the fall of 1877 sold out the business.  He immediately opened another 
store, keeping principally notions and groceries; since then he has continually 
added to his stock and now keeps a full line of goods usually found in a general 
store, and carries on an average, a stock valued at $7,000 the year round, with 
annual sales amounting to $10,000 and upward.  He was appointed postmaster, 
August 25, 1884, and served until August 18, 1885, when, against the protest of 
a large majority of the citizens, both Democratic and Republican, he was removed 
by the present Administration.  He is one of the prominent and energetic 
business men in this section of the county; takes a deep interest in the public 
affairs of his vicinity; and is generally the presiding officer in the public 
meetings of the Republican party at Bendersville.  June 29, 1876, he married 
Miss Lizzie M. Elden, a daughter of Charles D. Elden of Bendersville.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Wickersham have one child, Charles J., born May 18, 1878; another, Hannah 
Mary, born May 17, 1884, died October 27, 1884.  Our subject and wife, are both 
members of the Lutheran Church.