BIO:  Robert W. Morris, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 166

ROBERT W. MORRIS, a member of the Peach Bottom Slate Manufacturing Company, is a 
native of Dinorwig, Carnaervonshire, North Wales.  He was born January 27, 1847.  
His parents, William and Catherine (Roberts) Morris, had three sons and five 
daughters, all of whom, except one brother and two sisters, came to America.  Robert 
came to Slatington, in Lehigh County, and for eighteen months worked there in a 
slate quarry, then came to West Bangor, in York county, where he has pursued the 
same vocation ever since, having obtained an interest in the quarries of the above 
mentioned company in 1884.  He was married September 5, 1870, to Anne Jane, daughter 
of Hugh and Margaret Roberts, and has two sons and four daughters:  Hugh R., 
Catharine, Annie, Bertha, Maggie and Willie.  They removed from West Bangor to Delta 
in 1884 after the death of his father-in-law, and Mrs. Roberts, his mother-in-law, 
resides with him.  Mr. Morris is a member of the Calvinistic Methodist Church at 
West Bangor.  His parents died in Wales.