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- taught at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- He became active as a Fenian and was the head-centre for the County of Carlow till his activities led to his incarceration and subsequent exile to the United States in 1866.
A surveyor by trade in Ireland upon establishing himself in the Chicago Irish Community, John became prominent in railway circles until his retirement in 1895.
He was a resident of Holy Family, Presentation, St Catherine's and St Thomas Aquinas' parishs.
The funeral was held from his home at 26N 52nd Avenue with his Son Rev. John S. Morris offering the Solemn Requiem Mass.
He is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Illinois.
An Irish Newspaper published in 1866 in the Dublin, Ireland vicinity tells the following story.
ARREST OF THE HEAD CENTRE FOR CARLOW
Fenagh, Sunday February 25th, 1866
John Morris, the notorious head center for the County Carlow, was arrested this morning and is now a prisoner in Carlow goal. The importance of this arrst can scarcely be overestimated, when it is recollected that Morris for many months past, evaded the incessant searches of the police, owing to the widespread sympathy which he enlisted on his side in the districts of Fenagh and Myshall. He was one of the most active of the provincial Hear Centres, and was several times mentioned during the recent State trials as the consignee of a large number of the "rods" manufactured by the convict Moore.
As far as I can learn the police had no information whatever as to his precise whereabouts, so that his arrest reflects the more credit upon his captors. It appears that a party of five men, under the command of Constable Cox (in charge of the Myshall station) had been the entire Saturday night in search of Morris and as a last effort the entire party lay concealed within view of the house of the uncle of the famous Head Centre, a farmer named Edward Nolan, in the townland of Kilmaglash, near Fenagh. After remaining for about two hours - from five until seven o'clock - in ambush, they observed that the inmates were astir. The entire party proceeded to the house, which they surrounded, Constable Cox and two or three of the men entering it. They immediately rushed to the apartment where they thought it likely they would find Morris, and fortunately succeeded in effecting his arrest after a short but ineffectual struggle on his part to escape. He was instantly handcuffed and placed on his uncle's car (which happened to be in readiness at the time to convey the family to a distant chapel and was brought to Fenagh, where the constable took a second car and a party of police as an additional guard and conveyed him direct to Carlow goal, where he was safely lodged before even the rumor of his arrest got circulation. In the course of the day a number of the local magistrates attended at the goal and made arrangements for his safe keeping and, I understand, also conferred with the officer in command of the troops probably with the view of having military placed in charge of the goal. In addition to the 50 pounds offered by the government for the arrest of Morris, a second 50 pounds has been offered, I understand, by Arthur Kavanaugh, Esq., Borris House.----Saunders
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