Morris S. Round

ROUND, ADAMS, EDWARDS

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 12/30/2009 at 13:58:59

J. W. Ellis, History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910

MORRIS S. ROUND.

Although Morris S. Round is among the more recent arrivals in Jackson county, he has won for himself a place among the substantial and enterprising citizens and is highly esteemed in business circles because of his energy, determination and reliability. He owns a valuable farm adjoining the city limits of Maquoketa and is extensively engaged in dairying. He was born in Whiteside county, Illinois, October 17, 1867, and is a son of Arminius S. and Helen (Adams) Round. The father was born in Richfield, Otsego county, New York, February 23, 1836. His parents were in straitened circumstances and at the early age of fourteen years he started out to earn his own livelihood and made good use of his opportunities to earn an honest living. He was still quite young when he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1856. The following year he entered a farm in Kansas, but remained there only one summer, after which he returned to the Empire state. A year later he went to Grundy county, Illinois, where he engaged in teaching school for two years, and thence went to Missouri. He was afterward in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1859 he returned to Illinois, settling in Whiteside county. At the outbreak of the Civil war he returned to his native state and, thrilled with the spirit of patriotism, he enlisted for active service at the front, becoming a member of Company G, Thirty-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded in the battle of Antietam, being shot through the right lung in the first volley. Before he left his position a canister shot passed through his left leg. He lay on the field for twenty-six hours and the rebel line passed over him three times in charging and recharging, and when the fight finally ceased he lay midway between the two lines. Five months later, when he had sufficiently recovered from his wounds, he rejoined his command at Falmouth, Virginia, and was commissioned second lieutenant of his company, serving with that rank until mustered out of service June 30, 1863. On the 1st of January, 1864, he reenlisted as a member of Company L, Second New York Heavy Artillery, as a private, but was promoted to the rank of sergeant on the 1st of March. His regiment joined the Army of the Potomac after the battle of the Wilderness, leaving their siege guns at Washington and going to the front as infantry. Later Mr. Round was promoted second lieutenant, first lieutenant and eventually was commissioned captain of the company. He was a brave and valiant soldier and officer, his reputation fully sustaining the honor of the fighting blood of his ancestors. His grandfather, Barthrum Round, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war with the rank of ensign. Enlisting in the northern army, Mr. Round thus fought to defend the republic which his grandfather had aided to establish, and well might he have been proud of his military record, for he did faithful duty on many of the hotly contested battlefields of the south.
When the war was over Captain Round was married, December 28, 1866, and located on a farm, where his remaining days were passed. He died in January, 1890, at the age of fifty-four years, and the community mourned the loss of one of its representative and honored citizens.
Morris S. Round, spending his boyhood days in his parents' home, acquired his education in the district schools and in the Lyndon high school, with a commercial course in the Sterling Business College at Sterling, Illinois. Having arrived at years of maturity, he made preparations for having a home of his own by his marriage, on the 3d of September, 1890, to Miss Adelia Edwards, of Jones county, Iowa. They began their domestic life on the old home farm in Whiteside county, Illinois, which Mr. Round continued to cultivate for seven years. In the spring of 1898 he removed to Jackson county and purchased his present farm of one hundred and forty-five acres, adjoining the corporation limits of Maquoketa on the south. He makes a specialty of the dairy business, milking from eighteen to twenty cows, and in his undertakings has been very successful, being now recognized as one of the substantial and influential men of Jackson county. He is diligent and persevering in his business and the prosperity which he enjoys has come to him as the reward of earnest labor.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Round were born four children, of whom three are living: Glen E., who is a graduate of the Maquoketa high school and now a teacher in the district schools; Helen Elizabeth, a senior in the Maquoketa high school; and Morris Leon. They also have an adopted child, Richard Paul. In his political views Mr. Round is independent, supporting men and measures rather than party. He belongs to Helion Lodge, No. 36, A. F. & A. M.; Bath Kol Chapter, No. 94, R. A. M.; Tancred Commandery, No. 40. K. T.; and Kaaba Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Davenport. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which they take active and helpful part, while Mr. Round is serving as a church trustee. He is one of the highly esteemed and influential residents of Jackson county, at all times advocating public progress and improvement and giving his aid for the benefit of many matters of general interest.

Glen E. Round gravestone
 

Jackson Biographies maintained by Nettie Mae Lucas.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen