John Cox Morris

He came to Middletown in 1858 and was on the foremost citizens of that township, as well as the county. Engaged in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, it was only at the urgent and necessitous call of his country that he decided to sever his delightful family connections and, in company with his neighbors and friends, go to the front in defence of the flag and his country's honor. Refusing merited promotion, that he might remain with his "boys" he was finally compelled, by disease brought on by exposure in camp and on field, to resign, and on the 16th of April 1854, he was honorably discharged from the service on surgeon's certificate of disability, but he continued to exercise a fatherly interest in the "boys" of his company until the close of the war. Captain Morris was an influential member of the State Board of Agriculture, and at the time of his death was serving his third term as president of the State Agricultural Society. In 1878 he was elected a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and served in that body in the sessions of 1879-1880. His death, in 1882, was doubtless the result of disabilities incurred in the army, and thus, at the age of sixty, he passed away, another invaluable sacrifice to home and country.

From Centennial History of Susquehanna County