Ida County IA Archives Biographies.....Morrison, Peter 1821 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

PETER MORRISON, a contractor and builder of Battle Creek, Iowa, was born in
Painted Post, New York, November 15, 1821, a son of Thomas and Hannah (Sullivan)
Morrison, the former a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and the latter of Georgia.
When a young man the father left his native country for New York, where he was
afterward married. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, a stone mason by
occupation, and in 1855 removed to Belleville, Dane county, Wisconsin. In 1861
he went to Albert Lea, Minnesota, where he died in 1875, lacking ten days of
being 100 years of age. The mother departed this life the same year. They were
the parents of seven children, viz.: Peter, our subject; James, who served three
years in the First Minnesota Cavalry, is married and resides in Michigan;
Daniel, a member of Company H, Eighth Minnesota Infantry, for four years and
eight months, resides in Butte City, Montana; Elias, a member of the Eighth
Wisconsin Infantry, served four years and eight months, is married and resides
in Spokane Falls, Washington; Thomas, in Company H, Thirteenth Wisconsin
Infantry, for three years, resides in Butte City, Montana; Alva, in the
Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry, three years, was taken prisoner at Holly Springs,
eighteen months in Lib by Prison, and now resides at Crow Agency, Montana; and
Mary, wife of George Bull, of Osage, Mitchell county, Iowa.

  Peter Morrison, the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated in New
York, where he learned the trade of a carpenter, and was also engaged there in
railroad contracting. In 1856 he came West to Dane county, Wisconsin, followed
his trade in the summer and worked in the pine regions of northern Wisconsin
during the winter. In 1861, in Dane county, he enlisted in Company H, Eighth
Wisconsin Infantry, known as Runnel's Guards, went into service at Camp Rundall,
Madison, for three months, then re-enlisted for three years, or during the war,
and took part in the battles of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Antietam,
Murfreesboro, Lookout Mountain and in the Peninsular Campaign. He participated
in 144 battles in all, and was twice wounded. At Bull Run, July 21, 1861, he
received a gun-shot wound in the right shoulder and side, and he still carries
the two bullets. He was confined in the field hospital and at Alexandria. Mr.
Morrison served as Corporal, Captain and Recruiting Officer, and was honorably
discharged at Washington, District of Columbia, in 1866, after serving five
years, two months and twenty-three days. He then returned to Albert Lea,
Minnesota, where he began work at his trade, and later took the contract on the
railroad from that place to Itasca, Minnesota. In 1867 he came to Ida county,
Iowa, in 1872 located in Garfield township, and in 1874 settled in Battle Creek,
when that place contained only the post office. Mr. Morrison immediately began
contracting and building, and has also taken an active interest in politics,
voting with the Democratic party. Socially, he is a member of Matthew Grey Post,
No. 93, at Ida Grove, and of Echo Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 119, at Battle Creek.

  In 1854, in New York, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Emma
Hawkins, a native of Vermont and a daughter of Andrew and Emma (Leigh) Hawkins,
natives also of that State. They removed to New York in an early day, where the
father afterward died, and the mother now resides in Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs.
Morrison have had six children, viz.: James, married, and is a practicing
physician of Spokane Falls, Oregon; Sarah, wife of Eugene Randall, of Burnett,
Nebraska; Martha, wife of Willard Laflin, of Battle Creek; Matilda, now Mrs.
George Vaughan, of Utah; Mary, wife of Stephen Clark, of Linn, Iowa; and George,
a sailor on a merchant vessel from Oregon, and is now in China. Mr. and Mrs.
Morrison spent the year of 1888 in San Francisco, Olympia and Portland. They are
members of the Christian Church, of which Mr. Morrison is a Ruling Elder.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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