Joseph G. Morrison of Exeter, N.H. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page  1305

     JOSEPH G. MORRISON, superintendent in the Charles S. Bates shoe
factory at Exeter, N.H., for the last two years, which concern is engaged
in the manufacture of misses' and children's shoes, was born in Braintree,
Mass., son of Robert Elmer and Sarah Reynolds (Gregg) Morrison, his
parents being natives of Massachusetts. The father was a cotton yarn manu-
facturer at Braintree. He and his wife (both now deceased) attended the
Congregational church. Their children were Mabel, who married James D.
Ellsworth; Elizabeth, wife of Henry M. Faxon; Alva, and Joseph G.
     Joseph G. Morrison's education was begun in the common schools of
Braintree, Mass. He then attended the Thayer Academy in that city and
afterwards entered Harvard University, where he was graduated in the
Class of 1909. In July of that year he came to Exeter and became an em-
ploye of the shoe factory, beginning as a cutter. He has worked at every
operation in the manufacture of shoes, including also clerical work and is a
thorough master of the trade. He was married, June 4, 1912, to Mary Bates,
daughter of Charles S. and Sarah (Merrill) Bates, who had two children--
Mary and Helen, the latter being the wife of F. Everett Winslow. Mr.
Morrison is a republican in politics. He and his wife attend the Congre-
gational church.