William C. Morris, Buenos Aires

William C. Morris
William C. Morris

Location in Greater Buenos Aires

Coordinates: 34°36′S 58°37′W / 34.600°S 58.617°W / -34.600; -58.617Coordinates: 34°36′S 58°37′W / 34.600°S 58.617°W / -34.600; -58.617
Country  Argentina
Province Buenos Aires
Partido Hurlingham
Elevation 15 m (49 ft)
Population (2001 census [INDEC])
  Total 48,916
CPA Base B 1688
Area code(s) +54 11

William C. Morris is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area and is located in the Hurlingham Partido.

Name

The town is named to honor Englishman William Case Morris (16 February 1864 – 15 September 1932), Methodist, educator and founder of the first Methodist Chapel in Argentina. He arrived in Argentina as a ten-year-old youth with his widowed father, and eventually founded a series of children's shelters in Buenos Aires. He returned to England shortly before his death.[1]

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