Background
He was a son of Richard Lewis Morris (1805-1880) and Elizabeth Sarah Stuyvesant (1810-1881) and he was born in Manhattan.
He was a son of Richard Lewis Morris (1805-1880) and Elizabeth Sarah Stuyvesant (1810-1881) and he was born in Manhattan.
Richard Lewis Morris, Junior.
Elizabeth Stuyvesant Morris
James Morris
He was also a nephew of Hamilton Fish. Stuyvesant enlisted as a private in the Union Army, Company K, 7th Infantry, New York Regiment on June 1, 1862 and he mustered out on September 5, 1862. Elly"s paternal grandfather was president Martin Van Buren (1782-1862).
They had the following children:
Elizabeth Marshall Morris (1869-1919) who married B. Woolsey Rogers
Ellen VanBuren Morris (1873-1954) who married Francis Livingston Pell (1873-1945)
Richard Lewis Morris III (1875-?) who married Carolyn Whitney Fellowes (1882-?)
Stuyvesant Fish Morris, Junior.
(1877-1925)
Morris retired in 1913, and in 1920 was living at 16 East 30th Street in Manhattan. He died on May 10, 1928.
Jeffrey Thomas writes:
"In 1864 Henry James wrote of in a letter, "Mission Ellen Van Buren is here -- pale, thin, and drooping. We taunt her facetiously with being in love.. whereat she smiles languidly." Four years later Henry James commented in a letter to William James, "We heard from Elly Van Buren that she is engaged to one Doctor Morris of New Rochelle, a young physician who has cared for her for 4 years and never has been attentive to any girl in the interval.
I should think Elly"s own conscience should sting her." About this time Alice James remarked acidly that Elly"s flustered carryings - on about her engagement were likely to exasperate her fiancé beyond endurance.
I should have liked to drag in the former"s daughter, the intimate of our childhood, or of mine, later Mistress Stuyvesant Morris, but forebore." In January 1902 William James wrote to Henry during a visit to the United States, "I also saw Elly Van Buren, old looking but unaltered in manner."".
