John Morris

Artist: Unknown; Oil on Canvas

John Morris was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on February 6, 1824. Educated at Lancaster Academy. He settled in Baltimore in 1841 and became a pupil of Drs. F. E. B. Hintze and S. Annan. He also took one course at Washington College, Baltimore in 1845 and 1846.

He was a Licentiate of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (by examination) in 1845. He was a physician at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He was political, being a Member of the Legislature of Maryland (1852-56), a Member of the School Board of Baltimore (1856-57), the Postmaster of Baltimore (1857-61) and a Member of the City Council in 1867.

He received an Honorary M.D. from Bellevue Medical College in New York in 1868. President, Pathological Society of Baltimore, 1868 and 1872; President Maryland Inebriate Asylum, 1875-77; President, Baltimore Medical and Surgical Society, 1874-75; President, Baltimore Medical Association, 1879; Vice-President, American Medical Association, 1879; Orator, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1854;President, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1888-89; President of the Lunacy Commission of Maryland; President of the Maryland State Board of Health; President of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Medical Society.

Dr. Morris volunteered his services during the terrible epidemic of yellow fever in Norfolk in 1855, where he was himself stricken with the disease, recovering only after a tedious illness. He has a gold medal commemorative of this fact, presented by the citizens of Norfolk. His offices were located at 118 East Franklin Street, Baltimore.