Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-30
NELSON MORRIS dies
OF Heart Disease
PIONEER PACKER is STRICKEN
UNEXPECTEDLY WHEN I'M.
PRovEMENT SEEMED NEAR.
DISEASE AGGRAVATED
BY KIDNEY TROUBLE
Deeedent Born in Germany, Came to
This Country Penniless and Soon
Made Fortune-First to Export
Live Cattle to Europe.

Chicago, Aug. 2S.-Nelson Morris,
pioneer Chicago packer and multimil-
liohaire, died at his home, 2453 In
diana avenue, Tuesday. Dr. Arthur R.
Edwards, who has attended him in his
last illness, was present at the bed
side when the end came. DR.. Edwards
said the patients last hours were
peaceful. Mr.. Morris, who Monday
was believed to be improving and was
able to. sit UP for short time in the
morning, became worse at night
Tuesday morning, when he apparently
fell into the final sleep, the members
of his family were called to the bed
side and surrounded by all of them he
passed away, a victim of heart disease,
aggravated by an affection of the kid
neys.
Was Native of Germany.
Nelson Norris was born in the Black
Forest, Germany, Jan. z, 1910. His
father originally was a wealthy cattle
dealer, but he became reduced to pow
erty after Joining the revolutionary
movement to unite the Black Forest to
Switzerland. The father was an exile
until the son paid his ransom 20 years
ago. Carl Schurz was fellow exile of
young Morris, who, when he landed in
Philadelphia penniless was II years
old.
The young man walked to New
York, where he hired out to haul char
coal in Lakeville, Conn, for SIS a
month and board. Later he worked
his way on canal boat to Buffalo,
thence walking to Chicago. Here he
went to work in the old stockyards
for John B. Sherman. Five dollars a
month was his salary the first year.
All he saved from his earnings he
sent to his relatives across the ocean.
He began to buy hogs when he was
Is, making enough to start himself in
the cattle business year later. The
packer used to tell how at first he
killed and dressed his own cattle. He
slept on the slaughter house floor at
night in order to be on hand early in
the morning with his beef and pork
Starts a Packing House.
He started his packing house in
1862 and during the latter part of the
war supplied the army of the west
with beef. Mr.. Morris was the first
to export live cattle from this country
to Europe. He received the first con-
tract ever given to supply a govern
ment with beef. He obtained impor-
tant and profitable contracts with
France, England and Germany.
Financial Interests Varied.
Nelson Morris financial interests
were extensive and varied. He was a
director of the Union Stock Yards &
Transit company, the First National
bank of Chicago, the First Trust and
Savings bank, the National Live Stock
bank, the National Safe Deposit COM
pany, the Stock Yards Savings bank
and the Union Rendering company.
He was heavily interested in the Con-
sumers' Cotton Oil company, the Fair
banks Canning company, the National
Packing company and in Rothschild
& Co
Railway Holdings Large.
His holdings in railway shares up
to six months ago were computed in
the millions, and he also was a large
stakeholder in the Central Leather
company, United States Steel corpora
ton, the Chicago City Railway COM
pany and kindred concerns.