The Morris of Illinois and Ohio
- Thomas Morris (1776–1844), Ohio State Representative 1806–1807 1808–1809 1810–1811 1820–1821, Ohio State Senator 1813–1915 1823–1825 1825–1829 1831–1833, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court 1809–1810, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1833–1839, candidate for Vice President of the United States 1838. Father of Jonathan D. Morris and Isaac N. Morris.
- Jonathan D. Morris (1804–1879), Clerk of Clermont County, Ohio; U.S. Representative from Ohio 1847–1851. Son of Thomas Morris.
- Isaac N. Morris (1812–1879), Illinois State Representative 1846–1848, U.S. Representative from Illinois 1857–1861. Son of Thomas Morris.
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“Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.”
—William Morris Hughes (1864–1952)
“An Illinois woman has invented a portable house which can be carried about in a cart or expressed to the seashore. It has also folding furniture and a complete camping outfit.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)
“This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a “better land,” without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)