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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 596-597]

    EDWARD MORRISON, one of Cherokee's enterprising and successful men,
    engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, is a member of
    the firm of Morrison & Co., successors to E. B. SMITH & Co., now of
    Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  At first EDWARD MORRISON and ELI ESHELMAN
    purchased the stock of E. B. SMITH & Co., and operated the same until
    1886, when our subject purchased his partner's interest, and at the
    time took as a partner A. J. SHERMAN, M.D., and these two gentlemen
    constitute the firm of MORRISON & Co.  EDWARD MORRISON is a native
    of Vermont, but the most of his youth was spent in Clinton County,
    New York.  He is the son of BRADLEY MORRISON, who was an extensive
    farmer, and for many years was largely interested in lumber and iron
    industries, being the resident manager of a large iron company.  He
    married Miss BETSEY HILLIARD, a native of Vermont, who died when
    EDWARD was but four years old; thus he was early deprived of a
    mother's love and care, and at the tender age of eleven years he
    began hard work, chopping wood and assisting in the manufacture of
    charcoal.  When twenty-six years of age he went to the State of
    Michigan, stopping in Marquette County, where he followed char-
    coal burning, using an improved kiln.  There he remained until
    1875, when he took a Western trip, going to Utah Territory; he
    again engaged in charcoal burning, and spent three years there.
    His next move was to Lake County, Colorado, where he took up his
    old business; he drifted about through the West, went to Leadville,
    where he resided four years, and finally came to Cherokee, Iowa.
    Mr. MORRISON was united in marriage to Miss MARY HOBART, a native
    of New York, in 1872.  They are the parents of five children: EDWARD
    W., DANA H., HALLIE, GERTIE and DURANT.  Mr. MORRISON is a member of
    Speculative Lodge, No. 307, A.F. & A.M.; of Burning Bush Chapter, No.
    90, R.A.M., and of Crusade Commandery, No. 39, K.T., of which he is
    junior warden.  In politics he is a Republican, taking an active part
    in local as well as national campaigns.  He has been a very successful
    man in his business operations, and now owns 234 acres of good land,
    most of which is well tilled, and stocked with cattle and hogs.  Mr.
    MORRISON has had a very eventful career, has seen much of human nature
    in his extended travels.

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