Pleasant Hill History Center

WILLIAM MORRIN, farmer; P. O. Troy; another of the prominent farmers of Newton Township; was born in Washington Co., Penn., in May, 1815, and emigrated to this State with his parents in 1821, locating in Washington Township; he is of Irish and German extraction, his father emigrating from Ireland to Pennsylvania when a young man.  Our subject was reared a farmer, which has been his chief occupation throughout life; his education was received in the public -schools of Washington Township.  In 1840, he celebrated his marriage with Miss Elizabeth I. Mitchell, a native of this county and a descendant of Kentuckians; at this period, our subject began life for himself, farming the homestead place; here he successfully toiled for several years, when he moved to Piqua, his principal object being to educate his two daughters; he embarked in the grocery business, which he continued twelve years, when he moved on a farm near Troy, and three years subsequently purchased the farm on which he now lives.  Mr. and Mrs. Morrin are the parents of three children, one of whom is dead; the remaining two daughters have both been married; one is a widow now, living at her father's-the other living in Montana; Mr. and Mrs. Morrin are consistent members of the Baptist Church of Troy.