Arch's first job was brick making, as then done by hand, and was very laborious, but he learned the business, and in later life this knowledge served him a purpose.
He went with the Salem Light Infantry to the reception of General La Fayette in Boston, in August, 1824, and was always proud of having done so.
He was married in 1822, to Statira Andrews. They came in 1827 to Gardiner, where soon Arch went into the brick making business for himself. His son, Henry A., of Pittsfield, in a series of articles on brick making, written while his father was living, said: "My father did this same business for more than 50yrs. in succession, but the excessive labor has not brought him to an untimely gravenot yet, and he is 85yrs. old, and he brought up his three boys to the same trade; the one forsook it and for 30yrs. has been an editor and publisher; but the other two have, with short alternations as lumbermen, printers and merchants, settled down to the old business." Arch and his brother, Ebenezer Morrell, made the bricks for the building on the corner Brunswick & Water STs. In 1858 he and his son, Hiram, made the bricks for the Gardiner Gas Works. In 1845 Arch made the bricks for the Holmes & Robbins foundry, and in 1846 for their machine shopin fact he made fully 7/8ths of all the brick used in Gardiner prior to his death.
Arch Morrell became a temperance man and he was kind hearted, gentle, loving, and liberal to a fault. He never accumulated property to any amount since he was so generous and giving. He and his wife sleep in Oak Grove Cemetery, where some of their grandchildren sleep beside them. They had seven children.
[source: "Illustrated history of Kennebec Co., ME", Kingsbury & Deyo, 1892, page 656-8]
He went with the Salem Light Infantry to the reception of General La Fayette in Boston, in August, 1824, and was always proud of having done so.
He was married in 1822, to Statira Andrews. They came in 1827 to Gardiner, where soon Arch went into the brick making business for himself. His son, Henry A., of Pittsfield, in a series of articles on brick making, written while his father was living, said: "My father did this same business for more than 50yrs. in succession, but the excessive labor has not brought him to an untimely gravenot yet, and he is 85yrs. old, and he brought up his three boys to the same trade; the one forsook it and for 30yrs. has been an editor and publisher; but the other two have, with short alternations as lumbermen, printers and merchants, settled down to the old business." Arch and his brother, Ebenezer Morrell, made the bricks for the building on the corner Brunswick & Water STs. In 1858 he and his son, Hiram, made the bricks for the Gardiner Gas Works. In 1845 Arch made the bricks for the Holmes & Robbins foundry, and in 1846 for their machine shopin fact he made fully 7/8ths of all the brick used in Gardiner prior to his death.
Arch Morrell became a temperance man and he was kind hearted, gentle, loving, and liberal to a fault. He never accumulated property to any amount since he was so generous and giving. He and his wife sleep in Oak Grove Cemetery, where some of their grandchildren sleep beside them. They had seven children.
[source: "Illustrated history of Kennebec Co., ME", Kingsbury & Deyo, 1892, page 656-8]
Arch's first job was brick making, as then done by hand, and was very laborious, but he learned the business, and in later life this knowledge served him a purpose.
He went with the Salem Light Infantry to the reception of General La Fayette in Boston, in August, 1824, and was always proud of having done so.
He was married in 1822, to Statira Andrews. They came in 1827 to Gardiner, where soon Arch went into the brick making business for himself. His son, Henry A., of Pittsfield, in a series of articles on brick making, written while his father was living, said: "My father did this same business for more than 50yrs. in succession, but the excessive labor has not brought him to an untimely gravenot yet, and he is 85yrs. old, and he brought up his three boys to the same trade; the one forsook it and for 30yrs. has been an editor and publisher; but the other two have, with short alternations as lumbermen, printers and merchants, settled down to the old business." Arch and his brother, Ebenezer Morrell, made the bricks for the building on the corner Brunswick & Water STs. In 1858 he and his son, Hiram, made the bricks for the Gardiner Gas Works. In 1845 Arch made the bricks for the Holmes & Robbins foundry, and in 1846 for their machine shopin fact he made fully 7/8ths of all the brick used in Gardiner prior to his death.
Arch Morrell became a temperance man and he was kind hearted, gentle, loving, and liberal to a fault. He never accumulated property to any amount since he was so generous and giving. He and his wife sleep in Oak Grove Cemetery, where some of their grandchildren sleep beside them. They had seven children.
[source: "Illustrated history of Kennebec Co., ME", Kingsbury & Deyo, 1892, page 656-8]
He went with the Salem Light Infantry to the reception of General La Fayette in Boston, in August, 1824, and was always proud of having done so.
He was married in 1822, to Statira Andrews. They came in 1827 to Gardiner, where soon Arch went into the brick making business for himself. His son, Henry A., of Pittsfield, in a series of articles on brick making, written while his father was living, said: "My father did this same business for more than 50yrs. in succession, but the excessive labor has not brought him to an untimely gravenot yet, and he is 85yrs. old, and he brought up his three boys to the same trade; the one forsook it and for 30yrs. has been an editor and publisher; but the other two have, with short alternations as lumbermen, printers and merchants, settled down to the old business." Arch and his brother, Ebenezer Morrell, made the bricks for the building on the corner Brunswick & Water STs. In 1858 he and his son, Hiram, made the bricks for the Gardiner Gas Works. In 1845 Arch made the bricks for the Holmes & Robbins foundry, and in 1846 for their machine shopin fact he made fully 7/8ths of all the brick used in Gardiner prior to his death.
Arch Morrell became a temperance man and he was kind hearted, gentle, loving, and liberal to a fault. He never accumulated property to any amount since he was so generous and giving. He and his wife sleep in Oak Grove Cemetery, where some of their grandchildren sleep beside them. They had seven children.
[source: "Illustrated history of Kennebec Co., ME", Kingsbury & Deyo, 1892, page 656-8]
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