Charles W. Morrison, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 875-876 in "History of Dakota 
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				CHARLES W. MORRISON, M. D. 

	Dr. Charles W. Morrison is one of the . leading medical 
practitioners of Canton, South Dakota, where he has followed his 
profession continuously for the past nine years, and also conducts a 
private hospital in the city. His birth occurred in Jefferson, Iowa, on 
the 15th of June, 1880, his parents being John and Mary (Graham) 
Morrison, natives of Ireland, who were married in that country. The 
mother came of Scotch parentage and bore her husband five children 
while they were still residing in the Emerald isle. In 1874 the family 
emigrated to the United States, locating in Linn county, Iowa, and 
removing about three years later to Greene county, that state. John 
Morrison, who followed general agricultural pursuits throughout his 
active business career, is now living retired, making his home with our 
subject. His wife was called to her final rest on the 15th of December, 
1913. 

	Charles W. Morrison was reared under the parental roof and in the 
acquirement of an education attended the graded and high schools of 
Grand Junction, Iowa. In 1902 he took up the study of medicine, 
entering the medical department of Drake University of Des Moines, 
Iowa, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1906. 
In the spring of the latter year he located in Canton, South Dakota, 
and during the intervening nine years has built up an extensive 
practice there. He also conducts a private hospital, containing ten 
beds, on the second floor of the Syndicate block, and is widely 
recognized as a prominent medical practitioner of the community. Dr. 
Morrison keeps in touch with other members of his profession through 
the medium of the Seventh District of South Dakota Medical Society, the 
South Dakota State Medical Society, the Sioux Valley Medical Society 
and the American Medical Association. He has the personality, address 
and firm but gentle manner so essential in the sick room, and these 
qualities, when united with his skill as a diagnostician, explain the 
steady growth of his practice. 

	On the 25th of December, 1907, Dr. Morrison was united in 
marriage to Miss Clara M. Pimlott, of Des Moines, Iowa. He is a 
stalwart champion of the cause of education and for three years served 
on the school board, acting as its president during one year of that 
period. He belongs to the Canton Commercial Club and is a public-
spirited, progressive and representative resident of the city. His 
religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist 
Episcopal church, while his wife belongs to the Christian church. He is 
well informed on all the vital questions and general interests of the 
day, yet his attention chiefly centers upon his professional duties, 
which are discharged with a conscientious sense of obligation and an 
ability that renders him one of the more successful among the younger 
members of the medical fraternity in South Dakota.