Stuyvesant Fish Morris

Stuyvesant Fish Morris (August 3, 1843 – May 10, 1928) was an American physician and the progenitor of Manhattan's prominent family of physicians.

His maternal grandparents were Nicholas Fish (1758–1833), Adjutant General of New York and Revolutionary War soldier, and Elizabeth (née Stuyvesant) Fish (1775–1854), a descendant of both the Livingston family and Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of New Amsterdam. He was also a nephew of Hamilton Fish, the Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State. His paternal grandparents were Helen (née Van Cortlandt) Morris (1768–1812) and James Morris (1764–1827), High Sheriff of New York. His grandfather was a son of Lewis Morris (1726–1798), signor of the Declaration of Independence, from the prominent Colonial-era Morris family of the Morrisania section of the Bronx.

Education and training Morris was educated at Columbia College Grammar School. He graduated from Columbia University in 1863, earning an A.B. degree, and in 1866, earning an A.M. degree. The regiment was known as a "Silk Stocking" regiment and "Blue-Bloods" due to the disproportionate number of its members who were part of New York City's social elite, In 1864, he was acting Medical Cadet at Sand's Island and in 1866, he served as acting Assistant Surgeon at Hart and Davids Island during the fourth cholera pandemic. Dr. Morris was published in The New York Times, the New York Medical Journal and the Brooklyn Medical Journal.

He retired in 1913, and in 1920 was living at 16 East 30th Street in Manhattan. He also served as a member of the board of trustees of the Parochial Fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York.

Personal life On December 10, 1868, he married Ellen James "Elly" Van Buren (1844–1929) at Saint Mark's Church in New York City. Elly's paternal grandfather was the 8th U.S. President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862). They owned a house located in Quogue (a village within Southampton, New York) at the SE corner of Quogue Street and Post Lane, where he was president of the Quogue Field Golf Club. Together, they were the parents of the six children:

Elizabeth Marshall Morris (1869–1919) who made her debut in 1888. She married Benjamin Woolsey Rogers in 1906. Van Buren Morris (1871–1872), who died young. who married Francis Livingston Pell (1873–1945), a descendant of James Duane, Stuyvesant Morris, who also died young. who married Carolyn Whitney Fellowes (b. 1882), a daughter of Cornelius Fellowes, in 1908. Stuyvesant Fish Morris Jr. (1877–1925), a stock broker who married Elizabeth Hillis Wynkoop (1878–1930), daughter of Dr. Gerardus Hilles Wynkoop, in 1900. They were the parents of Stuyvesant Fish Morris III (d. 1948).

Morris died at his residence, 116 East 58th Street in Manhattan, on May 10, 1928. His funeral was held at Calvary Church in New York City and was buried at Quogue Cemetery. His donation, along with that of Mrs. Smith Thompson Van Buren, his mother-in-law, rendered the Library "a remarkably full one of political documents bearing upon the middle period [as of 1907] of the history of the United States."