Nelson Morris

Nelson Morris (January 21, 1838 – August 27, 1907) was the founder of Morris & Company, one of the three main meat-packing companies in Chicago along with Armour & Company and Swift & Company.

Biography Morris was born Moritz Beisinger on January 21, 1838, to a Jewish family in Hechingen, Kingdom of Württemberg. His family raised cattle. They had five children: diplomat Ira Nelson Morris; Edward Morris (married to Helen Swift, daughter of Gustavus Swift, and father of Muriel Gardiner and Ruth Morris Bakwin); Herbert Morris (who died suddenly in 1898); Augusta Morris Rothschild (married to retailer Abram M. Rothschild and later to retailer Maurice L. Rothschild); and Maude Morris Schwab (married to Henry C. Schwab). His wife was killed on September 16, 1909, in an automobile accident at Fontainbleau, France.