Boswell, H. James, American Blue Book Western Washington, Seattle, Lowman and
Hanford Co., 1922. p. 43

WILL H. MORRIS, of Seattle, has risen rapidly to a place of prominence in the
professional and civic life of Seattle.  Mr. Morris is a native of Ohio, and
was born in 1862, and was educated in both public and private schools.  He is
what I would term a practical, self-made man.  He was admitted to the bar in
1890.  Coming to Seattle he became associated with I. M. Hall, the partnership
continuing until the latter's death in 1893.  For more than twenty years Mr.
Morris was a member of the legal firm of Morris, Southard & Shipley, and
enjoys a clientele that is both large and representative.  I do not know
whether Mr. Morris lays any special claim to being a criminal lawyer, but I do
know that as a criminal lawyer he has enjoyed marked success.  He has appeared
as counsel in some of the hardest fought cases in the history of the Pacific
coast.  In 1905 he became Prosecuting attorney for King county, and made one
of the best men that office ever had.  During the two years he served in that
capacity some of the most important cases in the county's history history came
up for disposition.  It is phenomenal some of the convictions he obtained,
notwithstanding the class of men in opposition to him as counsel for the
defense.  His name became a terror to evil doers throughout the county and he
accomplished a great deal that others, before him and since, have failed in.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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