Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Oldham Co.

ROBERT MORRIS, LL.D.  Throughout the world of Free Masons, LaGrange is best
known as the residence, for some thirty years, of Dr. Morris, familiarly
known among his brethren as "Rob Morris".  The travels of this venerable
gentleman have taken him into many lands.  His publications numbering
seventy-three works, his connection with the Masonic, the religious, the
sectarian and scientific press, which as run through half a century, his
unparalleled industry as a lecturer upon many themes, all unite in
surrounding his name with a halo of public respect.  In the Presbyterian
Church at LaGrange he is a ruling elder, has been frequently president of
the county Bible society, was twice Master of his lodge, is president of
the cemetery company, and whoever visits LaGrange will hardly fail to hear
his name mentioned.  Robert Morris was born August 31, 1818, near Boston,
Mass.  His parents were teachers, a profession for which he was educated,
and in which he was engaged for the first ten years after his reaching
manhood.  In the science of Free Masonry, which he has so long honored and
served, he was initiated March 5, 1846, at Oxford, Miss., and received
subsequent degrees and orders to be a very large number.  As Grand Master
of Masons in Kentucky he served in 1858-59.  He was honored by the
Kentucky Masonic University as doctor of laws (LL.D.) in June, 1860.  In
1868 and 1878 he crossed the seas to investigate the condition of Free
Masonry in foreign lands, and in 1873 established the first lodge ever
organized in the city of Jerusalem, named the Royal Solomon, Mother Lodge,
No. 293 (Canada Register), of which he became Master.  This lodge has
maintained a continued and honorable existence, and bids fair to become the
mother of a group of lodges in Palestine, and the center of a grand
lodge at Jerusalem.  On December 17, 1884, Dr. Morris was crowned poet
laureate of Free Masonry by a consensus of Masonic sympathy and accord in
both hemispheres.  Five hundred thousand Free Masons gave their assent to
this act, the crowning honor of the composer of more than 300 Masonic
songs and poems.  Dr. Morris occupies "the old Kentucky home" from which
his children has passed into married life, viz.: John A. Morris, the
eldest, resident of Eminence, Ky..; Charlotte F., married to Hon. H. J.
Goodrich, Chicago; Alfred W. Morris, practitioner of medicine at Hyde
Park, Ill.; Robert Morris, Jr., resident of Nashville, Tenn., Sarah M.,
married to Lattimer Hitt, and Ruth E., married to John Mount at LaGrange,
Ky.  The Doctor married the mother of these children May 26, 1841.  Her
maiden was Charlotte Mendenhall, and she was born near Athens, Ala.

Morris Mendenhall Goodrich Hitt Mount
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Boston-Suffolk-MA AL

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