Joseph W. Morris (August 26, 1850 - September 13, 1913) was a lawyer and professor in South Carolina.
As a student, he worked in printing in the afternoons for R. Bruce Elliot at the Charleston Leader, and then with Richard H. Cain at the Missionary Record.
[1] Franklin J. Moses, Sr., then chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, gave Morris financial support and was one of his teachers and mentors in law school.
[2] In 1876, he was elected commissioner of public schools in Charleston and was nominated for state legislature, but declined both to finish his studies.
[1] February 14, 1884, Morris married Lizzy Perry at the AME Church in Georgetown, South Carolina.