Physician
Centurion, 1893–1936
Born 27 September 1862 in Morris, New York
Died 9 December 1936 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried All Saints Chapel Church Cemetery
, Morris, New York
Proposed by Loyall Farragut and Richard H. Derby
Elected 7 October 1893 at age thirty-one
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Lewis Rutherford [sic: Rutherfurd] Morris varied his medical career—in which he was at one time associated with that other well remember Centurion, Dr. Charles McBurney—by activities in numerous fields. A busy physician, who was also a founder of the New York Zoological Society, director in the New York Botanical Museum and trustee of the Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington, displayed unusual versatility of interest. The bent toward public activities of the sort came to him doubtless by inheritance. In the direct line, his American ancestors comprised Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration, brigadier-general in the Revolutionary War, and stubborn fighter to win New York State’s acceptance of the Constitution; also, one generation further back, another Lewis Morris who served before the Revolution as chief justice of New York and governor of New Jersey. Still further back, a Morris in the same succession, after seeing service in Cromwell’s army, had crossed to America, had bought up 500 acres north of the Harlem River, and had become “first lord of the manor” of Morrisania.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1937 Century Association Yearbook
