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

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

p. 398
Jesse C. MORRIS, superintendent of The Bradstreet Company at 
Wheeling, was born in the city January 18, 1871.  According to 
precedent, Mr. Morris has many years of usefulness before him, for 
his parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Sutton) Morris, who were born in 
Wheeling in 1827 and 1829, respectively, are still living, and are in 
possession of the faculties which have placed them among the 
prominent people of the city.  Jacob Morris has spent his entire life 
in Wheeling as a contractor and builder.  After many years of 
conscientious application to the duties of his occupation he availed 
himself of a much needed rest in 1890, and has since been practically 
retired from business activity.
	Jesse C. Morris was educated at the Fourth Ward public school 
of Wheeling, where he was graduated in the class of 1888.  In 1899 he 
began as a reporter for the Bradstreet Company and was promoted to 
the superintendency February 1, 1901.  He is a Republican in politics 
and is fraternally associated with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias 
and the Odd Fellows.