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Mary Cox Morris
Mary Cox Morris
Attributed to (1741 - 1827)
Related Person (1758 - 1827)
Related Person (1755 - 1844)
Related Person (1789 - 1851)

Mary Cox Morris

Datec. 1777
DimensionsSight: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (11.4 × 9.5 cm)
Object numberN0005.2017 (02)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Museum Purchase with funds contributed by Gemma Hall in memory of Lewis Hall
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextGeneral Jacob Morris (1755-1844) served as a liaison with General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. He built his home, the Morris Manor, in 1805 and the town of Morris in Otsego County, New York was later named in his honor. He and his wife, Mary Cox (1758-1827) married in 1777 and had twelve children. Daughter Mary Ann (1784-1872) wed Isaac Cooper (1781-1818) the son of William Cooper and the brother of James Fenimore Cooper, in 1804. Morris was a New York State Senator and served as the first President of the Otsego County Agricultural Society, which was founded by James Fenimore Cooper in 1817. He was also a philanthropist, donating to the Cooperstown Academy along with William Cooper and gifting land for the Zion Episcopal Church in Morris, New York.
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5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80
COOPERSTOWN NY, 13326
607-547-1400

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