HARDIN COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - MORRIS, James F., M. D.
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MORRIS, James F., M. D.; Hardin County, TN., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana

JAMES F. MORRIS, M. D., RAYNE.--Dr. James F. Morris, a prominent physician
of this place, was born in Hardin county, Tennessee, November 2, 1856.  He
is the son of John H. and Emily (Scott) Morris, both natives of Tennessee,
where they both died, the former in 1873, at the age of forty-two, and the
latter in 1868, at the age of thirty-six.  John H. Morris was a Methodist
minister belonging to the West Tennessee Conference, and preached to
nearly all the congregations in that State.

The subject of this sketch is the eldest of a family of five children.  He
received his education at Purdy College, Tennessee.  He began the study of
medicine in 1876 at Paris, Texas, Dr. McCristin being his preceptor.  In
1878-79 he graduated at the American Medical College of St. Louis; later
he continued his studies in Memphis, making surgery and gynaecology his
specialties, and graduated there in 1884, also taking a course of lectures
at Keokuk, Iowa.  He began the practice of medicine in 1877.  In 1886,
however, he again took a course of medical study in the various hospitals
and colleges of San Francisco.  In 1887 Dr. Morris married Miss Emma Hill,
of New Orleans.  They are the parents of four children:  James B.,  Bascom
F.,  May and  Lillian.  The Doctor is a member of the Knights of Pythias
and the Knights of Honor.  He has been a member of the town council since
the organization of the town.  He is also coroner of Acadia parish.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.
269.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.