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MORRISON, Charles Robert, jurist and au- thor, w.is lorn in Bath, N.H., Jan. 22, 1819 ; son of William and Stira (Young) Morrison ; grand- son of Samuel Morrison of Londonderry, N.H., and a cousin of George Washington Morrison (q.v). He received a good education at New- bury, Vt., studied law and was admitted to the bar of Grafton county, N.H., in July, 1842. He married Susan, daughter of Solomon Fitch of Littleton, N.H., Dec. 22, 1842. He was circuit justice of the court of common pleas of New Hampshire, 1851-55. He served during the civil war as adjutant of the 11th New Hampshire regi- ment, 1862-64, and was three times wounded. He returned to his practice of the law at Man- chester in 1864, and removed to Concord, N.H., in 1887. He is the author of : Digest of Cases Determined in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of New Hampshire (1868 and 1890) ; New Hampshire Probate Directory (1870 and 1884) ; Justice and Sheriff and Attorney's Assistant (1872) ; Town Officer (1868 and 1876) ; Digest of the Laws of New Hampshire relating to Common Schools (1869 and 1876) ; and Proofs of Christ's Resurrection from a Lawyer's Standpoint (1882, revised, 1885). He prepared a history of his branch of the Morrison family, which was pub- lished in the Morrison genealogy (1880). He died in Concord, N.H., Sept. 15, 1893.

MORRISON, Qeorge Washington, repre- sentative, was born in Fairlee, Vt., Oct. 16, 1809 ; son of James and Martha (Polton) Morrison ; grandson of Samuel Morrison of West Fairlee, Vt., and a descendant of Samuel Morrison, one of the grantees of the town of Londonderry, N.H. He attended school at Thetford, Vt., studied law, was admitted to the bar of Orange coimty, Vt., in 1835, and began practice in Manchester, N.H. , in 1836. On Nov. 5, 1838, he married Maria L., daughter of the Hon. Lyman Fitch of Thetford, Vt. He was a representative in the state legis- lature in 1840, 1841, 1844, 1849 and 1850, and county solicitor, 1845-48. He was elected a Democratic representative in the 81st congress, Oct. 8, 1850, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Wilson, and was re-elected to the 83d congress, serving 1850-51 and 1858-55. He was op|>ose(l ^o the Kansas-Nebraska bill, not- withstiinding his friendship for President Pierce. He diwl :it Manchester, N.H., Deo. 21, 1888.

MORRISON, Henry Clay, bishop in the Methodist Episcopal cliurch, south, was born in Montgomery county, Tenn., May 30, 1842 ; son of Robert and Mary ( Duval 1) Morrison, and grand- son of Josiah and Nancy (Wells) Morrison and of Colmore and Mary Duvall, who removed from Virginia to Tennessee about the year 1800. He was brought up on a farm, and availed himself of every opportunity to acquire an education. His

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parents removed to Kentucky and settled near Mayfield, where he taught school, 1860-63. He was- licensed as a local preacher in 1863, and served as volunteer chaplain in the 8th Kentucky- mounted infantry, C.S.A., under Gen. N. B. For- rest, during the last year of the civil war. In the fall of 1865 he was admitted on trial into the Louisville conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, as- signed to the Millers- town circuit. He sei*ved successively at Bardstown, 1865, Elizabethtown, 186e- 67, and Middletown, 1868-71. He was married in June, 1868, to Mrs. Mary E.

Ray of Nelson county, Ky. He was in Louis- ville, at Shelby street, 1871-75 ; Broadway, 1875- 79, and Chestnut street, 1879-83. Meantime he studied the ancient languages for four years under a private preceptor. He was stationed at Russelville, Ky., 1884-85, and in 1886 was trans- ferred to the North Georgia conference and sta- tioned at First church, Atlanta, 1886-90. He was missionary secretary, 1890-98, and in the latter part of this service he privately raised $140,000 and paid off the debt on the missionary board of the church. At the general conference of 1898, held at Baltimore, Md., he was elected to the episcopacy and soon after removed to Louisville, Ky. He was a delegate to the General Confer- ence five times in succession, and held office in that body three times. The Alabama Agricult- ural college conferred on him the honorary de- gree of D.D. in 1882.

MORRISON, James Dow, first missionary bishop of Duluth and 182d in succession in the American espiscopate, was born in Waddington, N.Y., Oct. 16, 1844; son of the Rev. John and Mary (Dow) Morrison ; grandson of James Mori- son of Glasgow, and a descendant of the Morisons of Stirling, Scotland. He was graduated from McGill university, Montreal, A.B., 1865, A.M., 1868, and was married in 1869 to Harriet, young- est daughter of the Rev. Mr. Townsend, canon of Christ Church cathedral, Montreal, and rector of Clarenceville. He was ordained deacon, 1869 ; in charge of a church at Hemmingford, Canada, 1869-70 ; was ordained priest in 1870, and was rector of Christ church, Herkimer. N.Y., 1871-75, and of St. John's, Ogdensburg, N.Y., 1875-97. He was arch-deacon of Ogdensburg, 1881-97 ; a delegate to the general conventions of the P. E.