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

J. S. MORRIS was born in Mercer County, Ky., in 1844, a son of Joseph A.
and Susan K. (Smith) Morris.  The Smiths and Morrises were of Virginian
ancestry.  Joseph was a farmer in Mercer County, and was interested in the
timber business.  Our subject was educated in the common schools and in
Georgetown College.  After leaving college he began reading law, and
became a deputy clerk of Shelby Circuit Court, began the actual practice
in 1873, and in 1876 was elected commonwealth's attorney for four years, in
the Seventeenth Judicial District; was elected to the same position for six
years in 1880, and re-elected in 1886.  He was also police judge of
Shelbyville in 1870, and held the office two years, resigning to take the
deputy clerkship of the circuit court.  He served his country thirteen
months during the civil war, was a member of Company M, Ninth Kentucky
Cavalry.  He is a member of twenty years' standing of the Masonic
fraternity.  In October, 1865, he was married to Miss Maggie Scarce,
daughter of Shelby R. Scarce, of Shelby County, of an old and prominent
family of the county.  To them have been born six children: Ruby,
Charles H., Josie, Garnett, Georgie and Julia.  Mrs. Morris is a member of
the Baptist Church at Shelbyville, and is one of Shelbyville's most
intelligent and cultivated ladies.  Mr. Morris is an eloquent orator, an
able debater, and is extremely popular throughout his district.

Morris Smith Scarce
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Mercer-KY Georgetown-Scott-KY

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