Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B Bracken County HENRY V. MORRIS, editor of the Republican, was born in Mason County, Ky., February 14, 1858, and is a son of William and Jane (Seaman) Morris. William Morris, a native of London, England, was born in 1802, was reared in South Wales, and emigrated to America in 1821, locating in Maysville, Ky., where he still lives. He is the father of nine children, seven of whom are still living. Henry V. Morris was reared in Maysville, where he learned the printing trade, and at the age of sixteen became the local editor of the Mason County Journal at Maysville. In 1881 he removed to Augusta, Bracken County, where he became connected with the Chronicle, a weekly paper of that city, becoming editor of the same in 1883. In 1886 he founded the Republican, which he still conducts. In June, 1880, he married Miss Alice N. Brown a daughter of William Brown, of Bourbon County, Ky. He is the father on one child. He is a stanch [sic] Republican, and a leader in politics of Bracken County. Morris Seaman Brown = Mason-KY England Wales Bourbon-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bracken/morris.hv.txt