Morris C. Town

Morris C. Town

       From the 1850 Census #5/59
Name - Morris Town
Aged - 32 Years
Born - New York
Home in 1850 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill

   Listed in the 1857 Elgin Directory as the President of the Bank of Elgin living on the corner of Division and Chapell St's.

       From the Aug. 30, 1860 issue of The Elgin Gazette

M. C. Town.

This old friend has come back to Elgin again. Here years agone, he opened a store and brecame a leading mercant.- He prospered and build the Union Hall Blok on the corner of Main St. and Market Square. That was a notable improvement and gabe the impu8lse which secured the Sherman Hall block Town subsequently established the Elgin Bank, which did safe and legitimate business, but throughj its connections East and West it was dragged down '57 and the fortune of Mr. Town swallowed up. Now he comes back to Elgin to resume his old business. He will temporarily open at No. 19 Main St., but expects soon to come down near to his old place where he will be ready to serve his old customers and as many new ones as may choose to hive him a call. Let a few more of our old business men resume their places and Elgin will seem all reight again. We are sure they will be welcomed with open arms and every facility offorded them to prosper as of old.

       From the Elgin Reserved Militia Rolls

1861 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 27, 1861.

1862 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 7, 1862.

   Elgin Registered Voter in 1866.

       From the 1870 Census #237/350
Name - Morris Town
Aged - 52 Years
Born - New York
Home in 1870 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.

   Member of the Elgin Scientific & Historical Society in 1880.

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

                             Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.