B. F. MORLEY

MORLEY

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:47:02

B. F. MORLEY, of section 27, Grant township, came to this county in 1880. He was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1842, a son of Dennis and Elizabeth (Oxford) Morley, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania, respectively. The parents had a family of eleven children, and our subject was among the younger children. He was eleven years of age when the family moved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared on a farm, and received his education in the public schools. He served an apprenticeship at the cooper’s trade, and followed the same for eleven years. In 1860 he went to Clayton county, Iowa, where he worked in a stave factory for some time. During the war he enlisted in the Sixteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company B, and took an active part in the battles of Nashville, Goldsboro and Rolla, and was honorably discharged July 19, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa. After the war Mr. Morley returned to Clayton county, where he remained until 1880, when he came to this county and bought the Thomas Delano farm of eighty acres, to which he has since added until he now owns 120 acres of well improved land. He has a good frame house, 16 x 28 feet, one and a half stories high, with an L 14 x 20 feet, one story high, situated on a natural building site and surrounded by shade and ornamental trees. Mr. Morley was married in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1871, to Miss Ruth Sharpnack, who was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Sarah (Antram) Sharpnack, both also natives of Greene county. Mr. and Mrs. Morley have four children: Frank Delmer, born November 15, 1871; Sarah Lizzie, February 27, 1873, now attending school at Lenox; Mary Ida, born March 27, 1875, and
William Nathan, born July 30,1881. Myrtle, the fourth child, died when a babe. Politically Mr. Morley is a Democrat, and socially a member of the G. A. R., Lenox Post, No. No. 316. Religiously both he and his wife were reared in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Morley is yet in the prime of life, frank and cordial in his manner, and a good business man.