s/o Dr. Jacob E.K. Morris, & Sarah F. Gillingham. Married Mary L. Parrish, d/o William Parrish, on 14 May 1913.

Olean times-Herald on September 18, 1933:

Dr. Morris was forty-eight years old. He was born in Eldred, Pa., March 19, 1885. His father, Dr. J. E. K. Morris, was then a practicing physician in that borough. His mother Sarah F. Gillingham Morris, was a daughter of a pioneer Olean contractor and builder, Charles Gillingham. The family moved to Olean in 1886, purchasing a residence property at 195 North Union Street, where the Palace Theatre now stands.

Raymond Morris grew up as a boy in Olean, attended the Olean Public Schools and was graduated from Olean High School in 1903. He went to Yale, graduating with an AB degree in the class of 1907, and then decided to take up medicine. He attended John Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, graduating in 1910, and immediately received an appointment as house surgeon at the famous Union Infirmary in Baltimore.

In 1911, Dr. Morris returned to Olean and became associated with his father in the general practice of medicine under the firm name of Morris and Morris. Dr. R. B. had specialized at John Hopkins in surgery and X-ray diagnosis and treatment, and he continued these specialties in Olean.

In 1913 he was married, in Baltimore, to Mary Louise Parrish, a graduate of Goucher College and daughter of a Baltimore merchant and manufacturer, William T. Parrish. Their only daughter, Mary Louise Morris, who was born in 1914, has just completed the preparatory course at Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, and will enter Syracuse University next week.

Soon after America entered the World War, Dr. Morris volunteered for service in the Medical Corps and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was assigned to the army medical unit at the Harvard Medical School as an instructor in orthopedic surgery, and later was on duty at Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and Camp Forrest, Ga., for several months. He went overseas in July 1918, as a member of a John Hopkins Hospital unit of orthopedic surgeons, and was on duty in France at Base Hospital 8 an 9 (Savenay and Chateauroux) until February 1919, when he returned to America.

Resuming private practice in Olean in the spring of 1919, Dr. Morris capitalized on his war experience, which had kept him in touch with the latest developments in surgery and X-ray techniques. He installed one of the most complete X-ray outfits in Western New York, and undertook a considerable amount of research work in connection with other X-ray specialists throughout the country. His results were recognized by election to the two leading American societies in the field, the American Roentgen Ray Society and the American Radiological Society. Since 1919 he had taken more than 25,000 X-ray photographs, and his files included many unique and interesting cases, some of which had been reproduced for study in medical schools and X-ray clinics.

Dr. Morris was active also in the general organizations of physicians and surgeons. He was honored by election as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1922. He had been secretary of the Cattaraugus County Medical Society for the past nine years. Two years ago he was elected president of the Western New York District Branch of the New York State Medical Society, and was to have presided at its forthcoming annual meeting in Buffalo next month. He had occupied several important committee appointments in the American Medical Association and in the New York State Medical Society. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Governing Council and of the Board of Censors of the New York State Medical Society.
Dr. Morris' widespread acquaintance among leading physicians throughout the country was due in part to his active war service, but still more to his active study, during the past seven years of the problems presented to the medical profession in their professional relationship with various public health activities. Cattaraugus County has been a focus for medical attention in this respect, owing to the Milbank Demonstration here, and Dr. Morris wrote extensively on this subject for the medical press.
His writings brought a large correspondence with physicians everywhere, and he was called upon frequently to address and advise medical societies in sections where similar problems were arising. Representatives of these societies also frequently visited Olean to confer with Dr. Morris and other officials of Cattaraugus County Medical Society, and his writings on this subject had attracted considerable attention in England.

Dr. Morris had been a member of the First Methodist Church of Olean since childhood. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite, and a member of various other benevolent organizations.

Yale University, on the occasion last year of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Morris' graduation, published the following tribute to him: 'Since receiving his medical degree in 1910, Raymond Morris had had the unusual satisfaction of joining forces with his father in rendering splendid service in surgical and X-ray practice in the city of his birth. Since his overseas service in the World War he has revisited France several times and has studied in other countries in Europe. He is a busy, useful citizen."

Dr. Morris is survived by his father, Dr. J. E. K. Morris, his widow and daughter, and one brother and two sisters. Charles D. Morris of New York City, Mrs. C. B. Jarvis of Utica and Mrs. Gerald Holmes of Athens, Greece{60b}