From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 386.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.

JACOB EDWARD MORRIS

Jacob Edward Morris, an enterprising young citizen of Wheeling, was 
born at that city July 15, 1857, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Morris, well-known an highly esteemed residents.  After receiving his 
education in the city schools he was engaged during three years of 
his youth as a clerk in a grocery store, where he gained his first 
acquaintance with a business in which he has since had a considerable 
degree of success.  At the age of seventeen he began, however, to 
learn the trade of carpentry, and that occupation engaged his 
attention until 1886.  On the 1st of June of the latter year he 
embarked in the grocery trade, in which he has since been engaged, 
having at No. 119 Sixteenth street one of the most attractive 
establishments of the kind in Wheeling.  He holds a creditable rank 
as a business man, and is a member of the Grocers' Protective 
association. He is also affiliated with the order of Odd Fellows. In 
April, 1882, Mr. Morris was married to Mary E., daughter of John 
Henderson, formerly a prominent citizen of Wheeling, and to this 
union two children have been born: Albert Russell and Mary Elizabeth. 


(Linda Fluharty)