Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-04-14
PIONEER OF THE
COUNTY PASSES
N. W. Morley Dies Suddenly ON
Sunday Morning at the Advan-
ced Age of Ninety Years

Sauk county, arose as usual on Sun
| day morning, and died from heart
disease soon after eating his break.
fast. He had been about as usual and
death was unexpected. On Friday he
was at the home of resident about
mile north of town and on Saturday
, performing his usual duties. Death
came as shock to his family and
many friends.
Born in Ohio
Mr.. Morley was born in Lake coun-
ty, Ohio, January 2, 1881. Lake coun-
ty is in the Western Reserve Of Ohio,
many of the residents of that sec
ton of the Buckeye state being COM
posed of New Englanders, chiefly from
Connecticut. Mr.. Morley's people
were early residents in the Reserve
and all of them possessed the substan-
tial virtues of the New England char
acter. His paternal grandfather,
Thomas Morley, icame with his wife
and children in 1914 from Massa-
chusetts to Lake county, Ohio, and
spent the rest of their years there,
being highly esteemed in the COM
munity where they lived Mr.. Nor
ley's maternal grandmother was Mabel
Russell, who came from Connecticut
to Lake county, also in early pioneer
times.
Nelson w. Morley was son Of
Thomas and Lillis (RusselD Morley,
his father native of Greenfield,
Massachusetts and his mother of
Connecticut. They were married in
Lake County, Ohio, and the mother
died there about 1852. They had a
family of seven children, namely:
Russell Lyman, who was an early set
tier in Sauk county and died in 1853;
Isaac, who served as the first county
superintendent OF Sank county; AL
vim, who died at New Buffalo, Mich;
Harriet, who died leaving no family;
Thomas M, Nelson w. and Ralsa, who
also came to Sauk county The father
of these children was a farmer by
occupation, as nearly all members OF
the family had been for generations.
He spent nearly all his life in Lake
dren settled in Sauk county, Wiscon-
sin. He made a visit among them,
but subsequently decided to spend his
last years in his home county OF
Ohio, where he died lacking only a
few months of being ninety-three
Nelson were successful teachers at
some time in their careers, and all
OF them developed strong traits Of
character and were useful in their
respective spheres and hardly any
family name in Sauk county possess
ses more associations with thrift and
general well being.
Boyhocd in Ohio
Nelson w Morley grew up on his
fathers farm in Lake county, Ohio
and had a good education, though it
was not composed Of the liberal adj
vantages enjoyed by present school
children. He took up farming, and
from the first was especially interest
ed in horses. In 1852 he was award
ed q fine medal at the Ohio state
fair for the best gelding exhibited at
Cleveland. That medal he still had
in his possession and cherished it
with special pride. Not long after
this, in 1852, he came to Sauk county.
His brother Thomas had come here
the preceding year and taught a term
of school on ground now occupied by
the Baraboo high school building.
Thomas Morley did not remain a
resident of Sauk county
Mr. Morley on coming to the coun-
ty bought farm in Baraboo town
ship and spent many INDUSTRIOUS
years in clearing and developing IT.
Part of the land and the old home
stead are now owned and occupied by
his son Frank AS a farmer and
stockman Mr.. Morley was easily a
leader in Sauk county and he acquir~
ed a large amount of land which he
subsequently divided among his chill
dren These children now comprise
a group of farming people among the
most progressive in the county.
Great Dairyman
For the stimulation and develop
ment Of Sauk county's dairy interests
perhaps no one man deserves more.
credit than Mr.. Morley. AS far back
as 1876 the butter from his dairy won
substantial prize when exhibited at
the Centennial Exhibition in Phila.-
delphia. A bronze medal and dipIo-
mas which were awarded Mr. MorleY
are filed in the Museum State His
torical Library at Madison. The
bronze medal and one of the diplo-
mas We're awarded at the Centennial
in 1876, held in Philadelphia. The 9TH
er two diplomas were awarded at the
International Dairy Fair, held In
New York in 1879. Besides these dt-.
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