Morris traveled north from Georgia in 1832, marrying Evelina Barker in Kentucky. The couple arrived in Chicago in 1834 where Morris established a law practice with J. Young Scammon. By 1835, however, Morris had left Scammon and was practicing law with Edward Casey. He was elected mayor of Chicago in 1838 and went on to serve terms as a city alderman.
Following Evelina's death in 1847, he married Eliza Stephenson in 1850. Eliza died in 1855.
In 1864, the former mayor was arrested for aiding in a Confederate attempt to free prisoners of war from Camp Douglas. He, along with his confederates, were sentenced to imprisonment, but were pardoned nine months later.
BucknerStithMorris (born: August 19, 1800 in Augusta, Georgia; died: December 16, 1879; buried in Rosehill Cemetery) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1838-1839) for the Whig Party.
Morris traveled north from Georgia in 1832, marrying Evelina Barker in Kentucky.
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Stith had been out of the city at the mines of the Stith Coal and Iron company in Walker County, of which he was president, since Monday and had returned only yesterday at about 9:30 a.m.
Hugh Stith, the oldest son, hearing the report of the revolver, ran up to the bedroom on the second floor, at the northeast corner of the house whence the sound seemed to issue and found his father dressed in his street clothes lying full length on the bed.
Stith was born in Richmond, Va., graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and came to Alabama in 1880 on the engineering corps of the Georgia Pacific Railroad.
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