California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


W. R. MORRIS. � One of the youngest men in the employ of the Union 
Lumber Company is the foreman of the yards, W. R. Morris, who is a native 
of the great middle west. He was born in Chicago, Ill., May 30, 1890, a son 
of H. F. Morris, who was a native of the same state, born in Quincy, and a 
banker in Chicago at the time of his death. His mother, Evelyn Schumacher 
before her marriage, was born in Wisconsin, and now makes her home with 
her son in Fort Bragg. 

W. R. Morris received his preliminary education in the public schools 
of Chicago, and later he attended the University of Chicago, altogether receiv- 
ing educational privileges above the possibility of the average young man. 
Some time after the death of the father, Mr. Morris and his mother came 
west, in 1908, coming direct to Mendocino county and to Fort Bragg. The 
son was fortunate in securing employment readily, accepting a position with 
the Union Lumber Company, and he has remained with the company ever 
since, being now foreman of the yards, a position which he has since filled with 
entire satisfaction to his superiors. The only organization with which he is 
affiliated is the Hoo Hoo, a lumbermen's organization well known throughout 
the west. Politically Mr. Morris is a Republican.