History of Ashley, (Delaware County) Ohio United States of America

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Albert Pricket Morehouse, governor of Missouri, was born near Ashley, Delaware county, Ohio, July 11, 1835; son of Stephen and Harriet (Wood) Morehouse, and grandson of Russell Wood, an early settler of Delaware county, Ohio. Stephen Morehouse, born in Essex county, N.J., settled in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1820, and in 1856 removed to Nodaway county, Mo., where he served as probate judge for a number of years. Albert P. Morehouse was educated in the public schools and worked on his father's farm until 1853, when he began to teach school. He removed to Missouri with his parents in 1856, taught school there and in Iowa, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1860, and practised for a time in Montgomery county, Iowa. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the Missouri militia, in 1861. In 1862 he engaged in practice at Maryville, Mo. He was married in 1865 to Mattie McFadden of Lexington, Mo. He retired from active practice in 1871, and engaged in the real estate business. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1872 and 1876, and a representative in the Missouri legislature, 1877-78 an.d 1883-84. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Missouri in November, 1884, on the Democratic ticket, John S. Marmaduke being elected governor, and on the death of Governor Marmaduke, in 1887, he became governor, holding the office until Jan. 1, 1889. He died in Maryville, Mo., Sept. 23, 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Ashley, (Delaware County) Ohio

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