Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1915 — 120 YEARS OLD, HE HATES THE WOMEN [ARTICLE]

120 YEARS OLD, HE HATES THE WOMEN

Was Two Years Old When Washington Retired, and Sixty When Lincoln Was Killed Westerville, Neb.—Thomas Morris, who has lived in three centuries and seen a great nation rise from a wilderness, is believed by his friends to be the oldest white man in the United States. At least he is the oldest man in Nebraska, and in fact is the only man in the State who was born in the eighteenth century, saw all of the nineteenth and has a good start in the twentieth. Washington was 2 years old when Washintgon delivered his farewell address and retired from public life, so he can say truthfully that he lived during the administration of every President of the United States up to this time. He was 11 years old when Admiral Nelson won his victory at Trafalgar. He lived, during the periods of the Napoleonic wars, attaining his majority six months before the battle of Waterloo. He was 7 years old when Ireland and England were united, and has lived during the reigns of King George 111., George IV., William IV., Queen Victoria, King Edward VII. and thp present king, George V. He was past three score and ten when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Thomas Morris was born January 15, 1794, at Bellew, Montgomeryshire, Wales. His father was a common laborer. As a lad Thomas was apprenticed to a shoemaker, which work he continued until recentljr. He is a bachelor, and has been for years a confirmed woman hater. He walks with the aid of a stick, and wears spectacles, the first pair of . which he purchased after celebrating hii hundredth birthday.