BIOGRAPHIES: Claude C. MORRISON, Barron, Barron County, WI

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Claude C. Morrison, proprietor of a well equipped drug store in Barron,
was born in Bloomer, Chippewa County, Wis., Dec. 28 1884, son of Elton J.
and Medora (Prill) Morrison. The parents, both of American birth, came to
this locality from New York State and have resided here for the last fifty
years. They were married in Wisconsin. Claude C. Morrison, after acquiring
his elementary education in the common schools, pursued further studies in
the high school at Bloomer. In 1900 he entered the drug store of E. C.
Dettloff at Bloomer, for whom he worked as clerk until 1906. Then to obtain
a fuller knowledge of the business, or rather the scientific part of it, he
took a course in pharmacy at the Milwaukee Medical College (now Marquette
University). He was in Eau Claire six months, then Cumberland, Wis. In
December 1907 he came to Barron and entered the employ of W. J. Gillett, by
whom he was employed until June, 1908, in which month he purchased the drug
business of his employer and has since been sole proprietor. He has a fine
store on LaSalle street, his stock including in addition to drugs, Edison
phonographs, stationery, school supplies and a soda fountain. Enterprising
and energetic, he has built up a good and profitable business and is
numbered among the leading citizens of Barron. His fraternal associations
include membership in the Masonic Blue Lodge No. 220, of Barron, in which
he has passed all the chairs, and to the Knights of Pythias lodge, known as
McKinley Lodge No. 172, which he joined on its organization in 1908.
Politically Mr. Morrison is a Democrat but not an active politician. He is
interested in everything concerning the welfare and advancement of his town
and county and is a useful member of the Barron Commercial Club.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 104.