Dr. Francis Wayland Morley, Early 20th Century Homeopathic Physician

Francis Wayland Morley was born in the state of New York in 1861 to Rev. and Mrs. Butler Morley. In 1884 he graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College; that same year he married Edith Durkee of Michigan. Dr. Morley and his wife had two daughters and one son. Francis Wayland Morley, Jr. followed his father in the medical profession. 

A 1904 publication from the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Ohio reported that Dr. F.W. Morley, Sr. had been recognized as one of the leading surgeons of Northern Ohio. Dr. Morley first practiced medicine in Huron, Ohio, and in the 1890s moved his practice to Sandusky. 

This advertisement appeared in the May 31, 1900 issue of the Sandusky Register:

Sadly, Dr. F. W. Morley died at the age of 42 on July 4, 1903. Three Sandusky physicians signed the following resolution which appeared in the Proceedings of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Ohio in 1904.

Dr. F.W. Morley was buried in the family lot at Sandusky’s Oakland Cemetery. Three grandsons of Dr. F.W. Morley followed in their father and grandfather’s footsteps. An excerpt from the obituary of Dr. Buel Morley, stated that the four sons of Dr. F.W. Morley, Jr., had been “raised with a love for learning, a drive for excellence, a devotion to family, and a zest for life.”