Woodruff A. Morey
Source: Biographical & Genealogical Record of LaSalle Co., Ill - 1900
[Page 63] WOODRUFF A. MOREY - President of 1st National Bank of Marseilles. Was lawyer for many years. Born in Manlius township, La Salle County, Illinois, July 24, 1840. Only son of five children of Vivaldia and Emily (BROWN) MOREY. The father was born in Orange Co., New York and was one of the family of twelve sons and four daughters of Hazard MOREY, of Welsh descent. Vivaldia grew up in New York, and about 1831 moved with parents to Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and in 1836 to La Salle Co., Illinois. He purchased farm in Manlius twp. In 1881 he moved to Petoskey, Michigan, where he died October 1895, age ninety-two years. His wife, Emily, died at the same place two years before, age eighty-four years. She was a daughter of Lysander BROWN and Sally (nee EVEREST), and was born and reared in Bethany, Genesee Co., New York, where she was married October 17, 1831. One of the ancestors of Emily BROWN was banished from the Massachusetts colony with Roger WILLIAMS. It was he for whom BROWN University, at Providence, Rhode Island was named. W. A. MOREY grew to manhood on the farm where he was born. He was admitted to the bar at Ottawa, Illinois in 1861. He practiced law at Ottawa, then in 1868 he moved to Marseilles, Ill. In 1871 went into banking in Marseilles. Mr. MOREY married Miss Helen BELKNAP, who died leaving two children: Harriet and Mabel, but the former died May 23, 1896. On June 13, 1872 he married Miss Addie SHERMAN, daughter of Orrin and Caroline (LATHROP) SHERMAN, of Batavia, New York and a native of Genesee Co., New York. To this union, one son, W. A. MOREY Jr. was born May 24, 1880.
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