Frank A. Morris Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1774-1775 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRANK A. MORRIS was born near Nora, Illinois on December 15, 1855, 
the son of Crowell E. and Nancy P. (Voris) Morris, and the seventh child 
of ten children. He received his education in the common schools of Jo 
Daviess county, the high school of Warren, and the Northwestern Normal, 
of Galena, Illinois. After leaving school be became a tenant on his 
father’s farm for a period of five years. From that time on until 1882 
he taught school and farmed. In 1883 he entered a homestead in 
Hutchinson county, Dakota territory, where he remained until March, 
1892, when he rented his farm and entered the real-estate and banking 
business at Tripp, South Dakota; continued in the banking business, of 
which he was president, until 1896, when he sold his bank to his 
cashier. He remained in the real-estate business until appointed 
surveyor genera1 for the district of South Dakota by President McKinley 
in 1898, being re-appointed by Roosevelt in 1902. In politics he is a 
Republican and served in the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions of the 
territorial legislature. He is a member of the Parkston lodge of 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Lodge No. 444, Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks, at Huron, South Dakota.

	Mr. Morris was married October 15, 1879, to Elizabeth A. Carpenter, 
and they have three children, Lulu B., Ada M. and Helen N., all living 
with the exception of the eldest daughter, who died September 26, 1902.