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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WILLIAM H. MORRISON, who is engaged in farming in Little Rock township, is a

native of the county, having been born on the farm where he now lives April 24,

1874.



  The father of our subject, Charles H. Morrison, was one of the pioneer

settlers of the county and now lives a retired life at Little Rock, Iowa. He was

born in New York state in 1836, and in an early day moved to St. Lawrence

county, Wis., where he engaged in farming until 1872. On Sept. 21, of that year,

he arrived in Nobles county and took as a homestead the southeast quarter of

section 26, Little Rock township. For several years he and his family lived in a

shanty and during three years of the grasshopper scourge lost everything. Mr.

Morrison lived on the farm until June, 1898, when he leased the farm to his son

and moved to town. Our subject's mother is Elizabeth Ann (Emerson) Morrison. She

was married to Mr. Morrison Feb. 15, 1855.



  During the entire period of his life of thirty-four years William H. Morrison

has lived on the Little Rock township farm. He secured a country school

education, and prior to 1895, worked for his father. Since that date he has been

farming for himself. He holds the office of clerk of school district No. 12,

which he has had for the last three years.



  Mr. Morrison was married in Osceola county, Iowa, Feb. 23, 1898, to Harriet

Stevens. She was born in Delaware county, N. Y., and was the daughter of Wesley

and Harriet Stevens, both of whom died when Mrs. Morrison was an infant. Her

father was a veteran of the civil war. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs.

Morrison—Wesley Harris.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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