Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Isaac Paschall MORRIS
Isaac Paschall Morris, third son of Isaac Wistar and Sarah (Paschall) Morris, born at "Cedar Grove", July 24, 1803, was educated for a druggist, and in 1826, with Charles Ellis, purchased of Elizabeth Marshall, the old Marshall drug establishment at No. 56 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, established by her grandfather. Christopher Marshall, 1740. The new firm of Ellis & Morris at once
took front rank in the drug business in the city, but Isaac P. Morris found the business distasteful, and at the end of one year sold his interest to William Ellis and the firm of Charles Ellis & Son Company continued the business.
Mr. Morris took up the business of manufacturing machinery in 1827, and in 1828 with his brother, Joseph Paschall Morris, entered into partnership with their cousin, Levi Morris, who a year previous had started the iron works at what is now Sixteenth and Market streets, and founded the firm of Levi Morris & Company, which later became the prominent firm of I. P. Morris & Company, of which Isaac Paschall Morris was for many years senior member and became one of the leading ironmasters of Pennsylvania. Lewis Taws became a member of the firm in 1834, Joseph P. Morris retiring, and removing to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, and in 1841 Levi Morris retired, at which time the firm name changed to I. P. Morris & Company. In 1847 John J. Thompson, a brother-in-law, became a member of the firm, and they removed to Port Richmond and erected the plant since known as the Port Richmond Iron Works. In the management of the company and throughout his life, Mr. Morris displayed and exercised that rare business ability and judgment that had characterized his family for many generations, and continued his personal interest in the affairs of the company to his death, though in his later years his health was much impaired. He was a highly esteemed citizen, of great public spirit, taking a deep interest in all that
pertained to the interest and prosperity of his native city. He married, 11mo. 17, 1841, at the Friends' Meeting House, on Orange street, Rebecca, born February 4, 1811, daughter of James B. and Lydia (Poultney) Thompson. Mr. Morris died at his residence, 826 Pine street, January 11, 1869, his wife surviving until March 22, 1881.
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