Chicago Tribune (IL) - October 07, 1955
NELSON MORRIS DIES IN N. Y. AS HE LEAVES SHIP
Wife with Stricken Ex-Meat Packer
Deceased Name: Lt. Col. Nelson Morris
Lt. Col. Nelson Morris, 63, retired Chicago industrialist, collapsed and died yesterday in New York City as he was leaving the ocean liner, Liberte, which had arrived from Europe.
Col. Morris was returning after a visit of of several months in France, where he maintained a residence. He also had a home in Homewood.
Wife with Him
With him when he was stricken was his wife, Blanche Landreau Morris, former French actress, whom he married in 1933. Other survivors are his brother, Edward Morris Jr. of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Bakwin of New York City and Mrs. Josef Buttinger of Pennington, N. Y.
Before his retirement from business, Col. Morris served as chairman of the board of Morris & Co., Chicago meat packers later absorbed by Armour & Co., and was a director and officer of other companies.
He was born Dec. 22, 1891, the son of Edward and Helen Swift Morris, and was educated at Harvard university. He was a grandson of Nelson Morris, who founded Morris & Co.
Divorces First Wife
Morris and his first wife, Jeanne Aubert, Paris music hall actress, were featured in a sensational divorce case in the 1930s. Her suit and his counter-suit reached the highest court in France before he won a divorce in 1933. The case was considered historic in that it reasserted the French legal concept that the husband's will dominates that of his wife. He had opposed her return to the stage.
Col. Morris was a survivor of the Hindenburg dirigible disaster May 6, 1937, when the big German craft was consumed by flames as it neared its mooring at Lakehurst, N. J. Thirty-six persons perished.
Col. Morris served in the army in World War I and was a reserve officer at the time of his death.
Services will be held Monday in Arlington National cemetery.
NELSON MORRIS DIES IN N. Y. AS HE LEAVES SHIP
Wife with Stricken Ex-Meat Packer
Deceased Name: Lt. Col. Nelson Morris
Lt. Col. Nelson Morris, 63, retired Chicago industrialist, collapsed and died yesterday in New York City as he was leaving the ocean liner, Liberte, which had arrived from Europe.
Col. Morris was returning after a visit of of several months in France, where he maintained a residence. He also had a home in Homewood.
Wife with Him
With him when he was stricken was his wife, Blanche Landreau Morris, former French actress, whom he married in 1933. Other survivors are his brother, Edward Morris Jr. of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Bakwin of New York City and Mrs. Josef Buttinger of Pennington, N. Y.
Before his retirement from business, Col. Morris served as chairman of the board of Morris & Co., Chicago meat packers later absorbed by Armour & Co., and was a director and officer of other companies.
He was born Dec. 22, 1891, the son of Edward and Helen Swift Morris, and was educated at Harvard university. He was a grandson of Nelson Morris, who founded Morris & Co.
Divorces First Wife
Morris and his first wife, Jeanne Aubert, Paris music hall actress, were featured in a sensational divorce case in the 1930s. Her suit and his counter-suit reached the highest court in France before he won a divorce in 1933. The case was considered historic in that it reasserted the French legal concept that the husband's will dominates that of his wife. He had opposed her return to the stage.
Col. Morris was a survivor of the Hindenburg dirigible disaster May 6, 1937, when the big German craft was consumed by flames as it neared its mooring at Lakehurst, N. J. Thirty-six persons perished.
Col. Morris served in the army in World War I and was a reserve officer at the time of his death.
Services will be held Monday in Arlington National cemetery.
Chicago Tribune (IL) - October 07, 1955
NELSON MORRIS DIES IN N. Y. AS HE LEAVES SHIP
Wife with Stricken Ex-Meat Packer
Deceased Name: Lt. Col. Nelson Morris
Lt. Col. Nelson Morris, 63, retired Chicago industrialist, collapsed and died yesterday in New York City as he was leaving the ocean liner, Liberte, which had arrived from Europe.
Col. Morris was returning after a visit of of several months in France, where he maintained a residence. He also had a home in Homewood.
Wife with Him
With him when he was stricken was his wife, Blanche Landreau Morris, former French actress, whom he married in 1933. Other survivors are his brother, Edward Morris Jr. of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Bakwin of New York City and Mrs. Josef Buttinger of Pennington, N. Y.
Before his retirement from business, Col. Morris served as chairman of the board of Morris & Co., Chicago meat packers later absorbed by Armour & Co., and was a director and officer of other companies.
He was born Dec. 22, 1891, the son of Edward and Helen Swift Morris, and was educated at Harvard university. He was a grandson of Nelson Morris, who founded Morris & Co.
Divorces First Wife
Morris and his first wife, Jeanne Aubert, Paris music hall actress, were featured in a sensational divorce case in the 1930s. Her suit and his counter-suit reached the highest court in France before he won a divorce in 1933. The case was considered historic in that it reasserted the French legal concept that the husband's will dominates that of his wife. He had opposed her return to the stage.
Col. Morris was a survivor of the Hindenburg dirigible disaster May 6, 1937, when the big German craft was consumed by flames as it neared its mooring at Lakehurst, N. J. Thirty-six persons perished.
Col. Morris served in the army in World War I and was a reserve officer at the time of his death.
Services will be held Monday in Arlington National cemetery.
NELSON MORRIS DIES IN N. Y. AS HE LEAVES SHIP
Wife with Stricken Ex-Meat Packer
Deceased Name: Lt. Col. Nelson Morris
Lt. Col. Nelson Morris, 63, retired Chicago industrialist, collapsed and died yesterday in New York City as he was leaving the ocean liner, Liberte, which had arrived from Europe.
Col. Morris was returning after a visit of of several months in France, where he maintained a residence. He also had a home in Homewood.
Wife with Him
With him when he was stricken was his wife, Blanche Landreau Morris, former French actress, whom he married in 1933. Other survivors are his brother, Edward Morris Jr. of Chicago, and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Bakwin of New York City and Mrs. Josef Buttinger of Pennington, N. Y.
Before his retirement from business, Col. Morris served as chairman of the board of Morris & Co., Chicago meat packers later absorbed by Armour & Co., and was a director and officer of other companies.
He was born Dec. 22, 1891, the son of Edward and Helen Swift Morris, and was educated at Harvard university. He was a grandson of Nelson Morris, who founded Morris & Co.
Divorces First Wife
Morris and his first wife, Jeanne Aubert, Paris music hall actress, were featured in a sensational divorce case in the 1930s. Her suit and his counter-suit reached the highest court in France before he won a divorce in 1933. The case was considered historic in that it reasserted the French legal concept that the husband's will dominates that of his wife. He had opposed her return to the stage.
Col. Morris was a survivor of the Hindenburg dirigible disaster May 6, 1937, when the big German craft was consumed by flames as it neared its mooring at Lakehurst, N. J. Thirty-six persons perished.
Col. Morris served in the army in World War I and was a reserve officer at the time of his death.
Services will be held Monday in Arlington National cemetery.
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