His father was Richard Hill Morris and his mother was Mary, daughter of Richard S. Smith of Moorestown, N. J.
He was married on Dec. 27, 1827, to Mary P. Jenks, daughter of William Jenks of Bridgetown, Bucks County, Pa.
They had a son and three daughters.
In 1824, when he was nineteen years of age, he formed a partnership with S. R. Kramer of Philadelphia and bought the Pennsylvania Correspondent, published at Doylestown, the name of which was changed to Bucks County Patriot and Farmers' Advertiser.
The partnership was dissolved in February 1827 and Morris conducted the paper alone until October of the same year, when he sold it.
He returned to his native town, and in 1846 became the editor of the Burlington Gazette with which he remained for two years.
In 1854 he assumed the editorship of the Daily State Gazette, published at Trenton, N. J. , resigning his post in 1856 when he returned to Burlington to remain until his death.
He took up farm land in the neighborhood of Burlington and wrote several pamphlets embodying his experience.
He also became interested in silk culture and impoverished himself in experimenting with mulberry plants.
He was an ardent opponent of slavery and was active with his pen in support of the Union cause.
One of his friends was Horace Greeley, for whom he frequently wrote editorials.
His published writings include How to Get a Farm and Where to Find One (1864) and Farming for Boys (1868).
He edited Derrick and Drill (1865), a compilation of information regarding the oil fields of Pennsylvania.
[W. E. Schermerhorn, The Hist.
of Burlington, N. J. (1927); W. W. H. Davis, Hist.
of Doylestown, Old and New (1903); Mary Morris Ferguson, The Family of Edmund Morris (1899); Report of the State Librarian of Pa. , 1900 (1901); Daily State Gazette (Trenton), May 6, 1874. ]
