BIO: John Morrison, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XLIV.

                           DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

463  DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

  JOHN MORRISON, retired farmer, P. O. Barnitz, was born in Dickinson 
Township, this county, July 1, 1818.  His father, William Morrison (a 
native of Ireland) immigrated to America, when a boy, with his parents, 
and came to this county when a youth, where he was engaged for many 
years as door-keeper at the jail in Carlisle.  About 1805 William 
located in Dickinson Township, he being then twenty-one years of age, 
and here he married Sarah Wolf, a native of this county; her father, 
William Wolf immigrated to this country from Germany, when seven years 
of age, and resided in this county until his death; both he and wife 
are buried at Boiling Springs.  William Morrison died in 1834; his 
widow survived him many years, and resided with her son John until her 
death; she died February 20, 1872, aged eighty years; her children were 
Margaret, Mrs. Ann Knopp (deceased), John, William (deceased), Samuel, 
and James (deceased).  John Morrison, the subject of this sketch, 
passed his early life on the farm in this county.  He married, February 
24, 1842, Jane Lockhart, daughter of Samuel and Catherine Lockhart, 
natives of this county, latter of whom died in 1876 at the advanced age 
of ninety years.  Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have resided in Dickinson 
Township, this county, ever since their marriage, and located on their 
present farm in 1853; they own here a fine place of 130 acres of well 
improved land, besides a tract of fifty acres of timbered land on South 
Mountain.  They have reared nine children:  Mrs. Grizelle Hollinger 
(deceased), Winfield Scott, Mrs. Caroline Stouffer, William H., Mrs. 
Sarah Catherine Martin, Mrs. Anna Mary Martin, Frank G., John S. and 
Martin L.