Robert Norris

NORRIS, MORRISON, HUNTINGTON, PARRIS

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 21:05:59

Robert Norris was born in Scotland, and came to this country when twelve years of age. He was brought up in Portage, Wisconsin, where he went with his parents in 1849. His father, G. W. Norris, still lives in Portage City. Mr. Norris was engaged on the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers, as a captain, for about five years. He came to Butler county in 1876, and kept a hotel at Butler Center for about one year. He purchased the Commercial House here in 1877, which he conducted for a time, and still owns the hotel.
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Mrs. Norris was formerly Mary J. Morrison. They have eight children – Rebecca A., wife of Charles H. Huntington, of Rock Rapids, Wisconsin; Samuel, Martha J., Ettie, Mary I., Robert J., James T. and an infant son. They lost their eighth child, George. Their oldest son, Samuel, is in the grocery, crockery and glassware trade, succeeding Parris Brothers, in August, 1881. He was born in Portage City in 1859.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 439-440