"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 485.
 
JOHN M. MORSS
     The subject of this sketch, a view of whose residence will be found in this
volume, was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, August 26, 1833.  Having crossed
the plains and survived the hardships attendant on the journey, he arrived in
Lane county in September, 1853, and embarked in agricultural pursuits, he being
now residing in the vicinity of the thriving little village of Creswell where he
has surrounded himself with the comforts that come as a reward after a long life
of energetic toil.  He married in Lane county, March 6, 1859, Miss Caroline M.
Knox, a native of Hancock county, Illinois, who was born March 1, 1840, and has
two children, viz:  Samuel Benjamin and Sherman Stocton.

 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.