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JAMES FINDLEY MORRIS was born in a log cabin near Princeville, Peoria County, Illinois, October 23, 1854, and died in Altadena, California, May 6, 1936. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena. His parents were Absalom and Mary Jane (Findley) Morris. The family removed in April, 1855, to Black Hawk County, Iowa, locating on land then secured from the government at $1.25 an acre. The son attended school but little during his boyhood, as it was necessary for him to labor on the farm. When twenty years old be attended school at Hopkinton, Delaware County, two terms, taught a term of country school, then attended high school three years. In 1881 be removed to southeast of Ireton, Sioux County, where for over thirty years be devoted himself to farming and raising livestock, in which he was highly successful. He was a school director ten years, and school treasurer fifteen years. He was elected representative in 1903, re-elected in 1906, and served in Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second general assemblies. As citizen and as legislator be was faithful to his trusts. He retired from business in 1909 and removed to Pasadena, California.