From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

pp. 472-473

C. E. MORRIS.  Among professional men in Wheeling, Mr. Morris ranks 
as one of the able and conscientious exponents of legal knowledge.  
He was born on a farm in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1869, upon the 
fertile acres of which his father, J. W. Morris, spent many years of 
his wisely directed and industrious existence.  Following his 
preliminary training in the public schools of Belmont and Jefferson 
counties, he came to West Virginia in 1887 to attend Linsly 
Institute, from which he was graduated in 1889.  The student days, 
marked by rapid progress and ready assimilation of his mental 
acquirements, created a most favorable impression upon students and 
instructors, and resulted in his appointment, through Prof. H. 
Roemer, of Linsly Institute, and J. Sommerville, then a member of the 
board regents of the West Virginia University, to cadetship in the 
latter named institution.  After his graduation, in 1891, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Business Law, he turned his attention to the 
further study of law, and was admitted to the bar of West Virginia in 
the fall of 1891.  As a clerk, he entered the office of Caldwell & 
Caldwell, with whom he remained until January 1, 1895, after which he 
engaged in an independent practice.
	June 28, 1898, Mr. Morris enlisted in Company D, 2d Reg., W. 
Va. Vol. Inf., as first lieutenant, and was sent to Charleston, West 
Virginia, where he remained until August 19, 1898.  The regiment then 
moved to Camp Meade, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and there joined 
the Second Army Corps, and proceeded thence to Greenville, South 
Carolina for winter quarters.  April 10, 1899, the camp was abandoned 
upon the mustering out of the regiment, which was the last body of 
volunteers to be mustered out which remained in the United States.  
By way of Tampa and Key West Mr. Morris proceeded to Cuba, arriving 
at Havana April 19, 1899.  During his sojourn in the devastated 
islands he gained a practical knowledge of the conditions in 
Matanzas, portions of Pinar del Rio and Habana provinces and Havana 
city.  He returned to the United States May 22, 1899, and to Wheeling 
May 30 next following.  The practice of law was resumed November 1, 
1899, since which time Mr. Morris has steadily forged his way to the 
front, and has repeatedly demonstrated a particular fitness for his 
chosen profession.  Added to a continually increasing knowledge of 
law, he possesses those characteristics which presage a brilliant 
future.  Politically, Mr. Morris is a stanch adherent of Republican 
principles.