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Rh membership of abontabout [sic] one hundred, and which he represented in State League Convention at Columbus, O., in 1890. He is now vice-president of Ohio State League, and is one of the organizers for the state, and acknowledged to be one of the most prominent negroes in Ohio; and before him lies a brilliant career.

He was one of the founders of the St. Andrews Episcopal church of Cleveland, O., and has made faithful effort through the columns of The Globe, of which he is editor and sole proprietor, to further the cause of Christian principles and right. He now publishes The Cleveland Globe, and has, by his pen, done much to bring about the civil and political rights of the negro in Ohio. He has made for The Globe an everlasting reputation as a strong defender of law, rights, and Christianity.

The subject of this sketch, born at Marietta, Ohio, January 19, 1863, was the son of Thomas J. and Susan Morris, whose parents were among the earlier settlers of Ohio.

Young Morris attended the public school of Marietta, and becoming possessed of a desire for a liberal education, at the age of twelve he entered Marietta College, the oldest and most thorough college in the state. His studies were soon somewhat impeded by the sudden death of his father, which threw much of the care of the family upon his shoulders. He was about to give up the idea of continuing his collegiate course, when the corporation came to his aid and furnished him with a scholarship, which did away with many obstacles. By the aid of his mother, and by his own efforts, he was reinstated in his class, and completed the whole collegiate course, graduating with the class of 1883, with honor to his