Morris, New York

This is from a collection of clippings kept by Catherine Roffe who grew up in Morris and now lives in Oneonta.

The photograph was taken by Felice Marlier.

Click on the link below the photograph to see a larger version of the photograph.

Click the link to the PDF file below to view the book compiled by Brown Thurston of Maine in 1880. Thurston family members lived in Morris and New Lisbon and other places in Otsego County.

The My Genealogyhound web site has this map from 1897 that seems to list all the post offices, railroads, and streams.

http://www.mygenealogyhound.com/maps/New-York-county-maps/NY-Otsego-Coun...

Links to other county maps can be found at the page listed below.

http://www.mygenealogyhound.com/maps/New-York-county-maps/New-York-count...

Thanks to Rene Elliott for sharing this photo and story.

In 1921 five students graduated from the Morris High School. Their commencement invitations were a nice little booklet bound with a length of leather thong. The invitation is pretty small. The bottom picture compares it to a dollar bill.

The class motto was a clever combination of words and a musical score. Decoded it reads

Never be flat
Sometime be sharp
But always be natural.

The graduates were:

Maurice J. Harris
Florence E. Carleton
Gertrude. M. Osborne
Rena A. Hinman
Alethea L. Miller

Read more about the Morris High School at this link
http://ourtownnews.info/morris-ny/Morris-High-School-catalogs

1947 Morris Fair photo by John Gould, shared by his daughter Kitty Myers.

On FB people wrote:

Another photo by my father, John Gould. I think it's late 1940s; the license plate on the car in the lower most left corner says 1947. This looks like a display at the Morris Fair.

John Pickens Yes that's the fairground
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